Blender

Blender is an open-source 3D creation and modeling software project. This test is of Blender's Cycles performance with various sample files. GPU computing via NVIDIA OptiX and NVIDIA CUDA is currently supported as well as HIP for AMD Radeon GPUs and Intel oneAPI for Intel Graphics.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark blender.

Project Site

blender.org

Source Repository

git.blender.org

Test Created

11 July 2016

Last Updated

26 March 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 2 Seconds

Average Run Time

6 Minutes, 58 Seconds

Accolades

250k+ Downloads + 5k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

Supported Architectures

x86_64

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* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 13 April 2024.

Revision History

pts/blender-4.1.0 [View Source] Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:26:07 GMT
Update against Blender 4.1 upstream, add Junkshop scene too.

pts/blender-4.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:55:43 GMT
Update against Blender 4.0 upstream.

pts/blender-3.6.0 [View Source] Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:54:02 GMT
Update against Blender 3.6 upstream.

pts/blender-3.5.0 [View Source] Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:57:14 GMT
Update against Blender 3.5 upstream.

pts/blender-3.4.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:54:02 GMT
Update against Blender 3.4 upstream.

pts/blender-3.3.1 [View Source] Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:57:49 GMT
Update SHA256 / MD5 for Blender 3.3 Linux as upstream appears to have respun that build. Fixes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/issues/671

pts/blender-3.3.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Sep 2022 07:44:20 GMT
Update against Blender 3.3 upstream, add Intel oneAPI back-end option.

pts/blender-3.2.0 [View Source] Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:25:18 GMT
Update against Blender 3.2 upstram, expose Radeon HIP option, switch to using --cycles-device option in recent versions for setting device acceleration.

pts/blender-3.0.0 [View Source] Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:08:32 GMT
Update against Blender 3.0 upstream release.

pts/blender-1.9.1 [View Source] Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:22:17 GMT
Update download links for Barbershop blend files, old mirror broke.

pts/blender-1.9.0 [View Source] Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:02:18 GMT
Update against Blender 2.92 upstream.

pts/blender-1.8.0 [View Source] Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:54:31 GMT
Update against upstream Blender 2.90.

pts/blender-1.7.1 [View Source] Sun, 17 May 2020 15:33:56 GMT
Add macOS support, add more download mirrors.

pts/blender-1.7.0 [View Source] Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:07:03 GMT
Update against Blender 2.82 upstream.

pts/blender-1.6.0 [View Source] Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:28:12 GMT
Update against Blender 2.81.

pts/blender-1.5.1 [View Source] Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:55:34 GMT
Fix for Blender 2.80 Python API preferences handling for GPU selection.

pts/blender-1.5.0 [View Source] Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:39:52 GMT
Update against Blender 2.80 upstream.

pts/blender-1.4.1 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:47:17 GMT
Square away the Windows support.

pts/blender-1.4.0 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:43:14 GMT
Update against Blender 2.79a, plumb in initial Windows support.

pts/blender-1.3.2 [View Source] Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:05:28 GMT
Fix GPU download link

pts/blender-1.3.1 [View Source] Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:34:23 GMT
Add new Barbershop scene.

pts/blender-1.3.0 [View Source] Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:15:52 GMT
Update against Blender 2.79 upstream

pts/blender-1.2.0 [View Source] Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:35:10 GMT
Update to upstream 2.78c

pts/blender-1.1.1 [View Source] Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:44:56 GMT
Add explicit CPU-only / NONE acceleration option

pts/blender-1.1.0 [View Source] Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:02:29 GMT
Update against upstream Blender 2.78a

pts/blender-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:09:41 GMT
Initial commit

Suites Using This Test

Multi-Core

OpenCL

Common Workstation Benchmarks

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Server CPU Tests

Renderers

NVIDIA GPU Compute

Game Development

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Blender 4.1

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 139 public results since 26 March 2024 with the latest data as of 15 April 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

Seconds (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

100th

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

94th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

90th

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

87th

INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

84th

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

81st

Mid-Tier

75th

> 37

2 x AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

74th

37 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

72nd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

70th

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4

67th

Intel Core i9-14900K

63rd

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

60th

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

56th

Intel Core i9-10980XE

54th

Median

50th

Intel Xeon E E-2488

49th

123

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

42nd

146 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

36th

153 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

33rd

154 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

29th

160 ^{+/- 4}

Low-Tier

25th

> 164

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

24th

167 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-1280P

18th

202

Intel Core i7-5960X

16th

230 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

12th

274

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

11th

296 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

8th

320 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

6th

653 ^{+/- 22}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Blender 4.1 - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only) has an average run-time of 6 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.1%.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

SSE2 (SSE2)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDQA PUNPCKLQDQ PADDQ PSUBQ SHUFPD MOVDQU SUBSD MOVD MULSD COMISD CVTTSD2SI MAXSD MINSD DIVSD UCOMISD CVTSS2SD CVTSI2SD ADDSD CVTSD2SS SQRTSD MOVAPD CVTSD2SI ADDPD UNPCKHPD UNPCKLPD MULPD SUBPD XORPD ANDPD ORPD PSHUFD PUNPCKHQDQ ANDNPD CMPNLESD CMPLTSD DIVPD PSHUFLW PSRLDQ CVTDQ2PS CVTPS2DQ CVTTPS2DQ PMULUDQ MOVUPD CMPEQPD MAXPD MOVHPD MOVLPD CMPNLTSD CVTPS2PD CVTPD2PS SQRTPD MOVMSKPD CVTDQ2PD PSLLDQ PSHUFHW MOVNTDQ CMPLESD MOVDQ2Q MOVQ2DQ CMPLTPD CVTTPD2DQ CMPLEPD CMPNLEPD CMPNLTPD

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVSLDUP MOVSHDUP MOVDDUP LDDQU HADDPS ADDSUBPS

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PSHUFB PABSW PSIGNW PMULHRSW PMADDUBSW PALIGNR PABSD PSIGND PHADDD PABSB PHADDW PHADDSW

SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

POPCNT

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VZEROUPPER VPERMILPS VBROADCASTSS VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VBROADCASTF128 VPERM2F128 VBROADCASTSD VPERMILPD VMASKMOVPS

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VPERM2I128 VINSERTI128 VPERMQ VEXTRACTI128 VPBLENDD VPERMD VPBROADCASTB VPBROADCASTW VPBROADCASTD VPERMPD VPERMPS VGATHERDPD VGATHERDPS VPBROADCASTQ VPGATHERDD VPSRAVD VPSLLVD VPGATHERQQ VPMASKMOVD

AVX Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-VNNI)

Used by default on supported hardware.

VPDPBUSD

FMA (FMA)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VFMADD231SS VFMADD213SS VFNMADD213SS VFMADD132PS VFMADD132SS VFNMADD132SS VFMADD231PS VFNMADD231SS VFNMADD132PS VFMSUB231PS VFMSUB132PS VFMADD213PS VFNMADD231PS VFMSUB132SS VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD213PS VFNMSUB132SS VFMSUB213PS VFNMSUB231SS VFMSUB213SS VFNMADD231PD VFMADD231PD VFMADD213PD VFMADDSUB213PS VFMSUBADD213PS VFMADDSUB231PS VFNMSUB231PS VFNMSUB213SS

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

Last automated analysis: 6 April 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libtbb.so.2, libutil.so.1, libpthread.so.0, libdl.so.2, libm.so.6, libosdGPU.so.3.6.0, libosdCPU.so.3.6.0, libX11.so.6, libXrender.so.1, libXxf86vm.so.1, libXfixes.so.3, libXi.so.6, libxkbcommon.so.0, libembree4.so.4, libsycl.so.6, liboslcomp.so.1.13, liboslexec.so.1.13, liboslquery.so.1.13, liboslnoise.so.1.13, libOpenImageIO.so.2.5, libOpenColorIO.so.2.3, libOpenImageDenoise.so.2, libMaterialXFormat.so.1, libMaterialXCore.so.1, libopenvdb.so.11.0, libIex.so.31, libOpenEXR.so.31, libOpenEXRCore.so.31, libIlmThread.so.31, libImath.so.30, libc.so.6, libxcb.so.1, libXext.so.6, librt.so.1, libSM.so.6, libICE.so.6, libGL.so.1, libMaterialXRender.so.1, libMaterialXGenGlsl.so.1, libMaterialXGenMsl.so.1, libMaterialXGenShader.so.1, libz.so.1, libXau.so.6, libXdmcp.so.6, libuuid.so.1, libbsd.so.0, libGLdispatch.so.0, libGLX.so.0, libmd.so.0.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

2024-04-10-1051 1 System - 201 Benchmark Results	Ampere Altra Max - HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 - 16 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
test1 2 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-12100F - MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH EndeavourOS rolling - 6.8.4-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 6.0.3
sssf 3 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - LENOVO IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.7-300.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.0
test1 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-2700K - Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Fedora Linux 39 - 6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.5
2024-04-09-1129 1 System - 46 Benchmark Results	Snapdragon Compute - Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 - 1 x 32768 MB 2092MHz Hynix H9HCNNNFAMMLXR- Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
2024-04-09-1129 1 System - 46 Benchmark Results	Snapdragon Compute - Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 - 1 x 32768 MB 2092MHz Hynix H9HCNNNFAMMLXR- Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
dual-epyc-7551-blender-BMW27-benchmark-memory-channel-tdp-250w-cli-2024-04-10 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - Supermicro Super Server H11DSi-NT v2.00 - AMD 17h Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - X Server 1.21.1.4
Blend1 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-13700KF - Gigabyte Z790 AORUS ELITE AX - 2 x 16384 MB 5200MHz AX5U5200C3816G-B Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3296 - 551.86
2024-04-09-0953 1 System - 46 Benchmark Results	Ampere Altra Max - HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 - 16 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
dual-epyc-7551-blender-BMW27-memory-channel-tdp-250w-benchmark-cli-2024-04-09 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - Supermicro Super Server H11DSi-NT v2.00 - AMD 17h Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - X Server 1.21.1.4
bl-classroom 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i7-12700H - Dell 07K1M2 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Fedora 37 - 6.5.12-100.fc37.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 43.9
dual-epyc-7551-blender-BMW27-benchmark-2024-04-07 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - Supermicro H11DSi-NT v2.00 - AMD 17h Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-101-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
dlda 2 Systems - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-18-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Windows 11 Framework 16 1 System - 158 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework FRANMZCP07 - 2 x 8192MB 5600MHz A-DATA AD5S56008G-B Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3296 - 31.0.22024.15004
blender-results 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core - ASRock A620I Lightning WiFi - AMD Device 14d8 Pop 22.04 - 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5

Blender 4.1 Benchmark Linux Comparison 2 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
9684x-march 3 Systems - 55 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-25-generic - GCC 13.2.0
epyc siena 2 Systems - 29 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core - AMD Cinnabar - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.1-060801-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
tf blend 2 Systems - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
emr march 2 Systems - 32 Benchmark Results	2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592+ - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D54Q-2U S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.6.0-rc5-phx-patched - GNOME Shell 45.0
14900k tues 2 Systems - 26 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.0-phx - GNOME Shell 45.1
blender tensorflow tests 2 Systems - 40 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
fedora-beta-40 Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core - Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI - AMD Starship Fedora 40 - 6.8.2-300.fc40.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 6.0.2
icelake march 2 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Ice Lake-LP DRAM Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
5900hx eo q1 2 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY_G513QY G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
ble 2 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-5960X - Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
blender 4.1 threadripper 3 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
tests 2 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - NB01 TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 NL5xNU - AMD Renoir Tuxedo 22.04 - 6.5.0-10027-tuxedo - KDE Plasma 5.27.10
9684x-march 2 Systems - 49 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-25-generic - GCC 13.2.0
ldld 2 Systems - 34 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.0-060800rc1daily20240126-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2

Blender

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Supported Architectures

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Blender 4.1

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results