Timed GCC Compilation

This test times how long it takes to build the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) open-source compiler.

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

Project Site

gcc.gnu.org

Source Repository

gcc.gnu.org

Test Created

16 August 2017

Last Updated

31 July 2023

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

2 Seconds

Average Run Time

54 Minutes, 40 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Bison + Flex + GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic

Accolades

150k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

* 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 5 January 2025.

Revision History

pts/build-gcc-1.4.0 [View Source] Mon, 31 Jul 2023 06:00:54 GMT
Update against GCC 13.2 upstream. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/openbenchmarking/issues/44

pts/build-gcc-1.3.0 [View Source] Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:45:14 GMT
Update against GCC 11.2 upstream for building as prior version began having issues with newer distros.

pts/build-gcc-1.2.0 [View Source] Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:11:07 GMT
Update against GCC 9.3.0 upstream.

pts/build-gcc-1.1.2 [View Source] Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:27:43 GMT
Set timestorun = 3

pts/build-gcc-1.1.1 [View Source] Sat, 10 Nov 2018 11:24:30 GMT
Use NUM_CPU_CORES.

pts/build-gcc-1.1.0 [View Source] Sat, 10 Nov 2018 11:08:13 GMT
Update against upstream GCC 8.2.0.

pts/build-gcc-1.0.0 [View Source] Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:45:50 GMT
Initial commit of a timed GCC compilation test profile.

Suites Using This Test

Timed Code Compilation

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Programmer / Developer System Benchmarks

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Timed GCC Compilation 13.2

Time To Compile

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 428 public results since 31 July 2023 with the latest data as of 3 January 2025.

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)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

98th

531 ^{+/- 16}

AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core

96th

573 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-14900K

93rd

642 ^{+/- 60}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

90th

654 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

88th

658 ^{+/- 26}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX 24-Cores

88th

663 ^{+/- 21}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

85th

683 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i9-13900K

85th

683 ^{+/- 61}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

82nd

727 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

80th

775 ^{+/- 54}

Intel Xeon E E-2488

79th

791 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

78th

813 ^{+/- 19}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 840

Intel Xeon Gold 6421N

74th

851 ^{+/- 9}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

72nd

863 ^{+/- 49}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

68th

904 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-12600K

66th

919

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

66th

924 ^{+/- 82}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

63rd

957 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

62nd

984

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

61st

987 ^{+/- 7}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

59th

1020

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

58th

1038 ^{+/- 43}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

56th

1051 ^{+/- 25}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6430

56th

1057 ^{+/- 35}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

55th

1081 ^{+/- 20}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

54th

1095

Intel Core i9-10980XE

52nd

1100

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

51st

1115 ^{+/- 78}

Median

50th

1146

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

49th

1168 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Xeon E-2388G

49th

1168

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

46th

1234 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

42nd

1344 ^{+/- 6}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

42nd

1345

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G

40th

1354 ^{+/- 20}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

35th

1492 ^{+/- 46}

Intel Xeon E-2336

33rd

1526 ^{+/- 20}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

30th

1618 ^{+/- 61}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218

30th

1643 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

29th

1669 ^{+/- 4}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

28th

1691 ^{+/- 8}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 0

26th

1738 ^{+/- 4}

Low-Tier

25th

> 1742

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

23rd

1917 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

22nd

1992 ^{+/- 3}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 0

20th

2332 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

18th

2352 ^{+/- 18}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

17th

2401 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i5-1135G7

15th

2435 ^{+/- 62}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

14th

2580 ^{+/- 159}

Intel Core i7-2600

8th

3251 ^{+/- 83}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

8th

3387 ^{+/- 107}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Timed GCC Compilation 13.2 - Time To Compile) has an average run-time of 1 hour, 19 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 0.2%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

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)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, HiSilicon TSV110, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

ryzen 5950x build-gcc 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-51-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
build-gcc-5950x 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO-P - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-51-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
after-fan-spin-1 1 System - 22 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.12.7-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 6.2.4
dev 1 System - 97 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-14600K - ASRock B760 Pro RS WiFi - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Arch rolling - 6.12.7-arch1-1 - GNOME Shell 47.2
orin_accelerated_gpu 1 System - 22 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 - NVIDIA Jetson - 62GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.148-tegra - GNOME Shell 42.9
test1 1 System - 35 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 82G33 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-51-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
IPC 1 System - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-6700 - Q17AX-03 05/23/18 A04 Medtronics - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-127-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
hi 1 System - 33 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-13900K - Supermicro X13SAE-F v1.02 - 128GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.6.66-Unraid - btrfs
ZALMAN 1 System - 43 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700 - MSI PRO B760M-A WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-127-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
7950X 1 System - 21 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASRock X870E Taichi - AMD Raphael Arch rolling - 6.12.4-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 6.2.4
CPUArena 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800H - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment F6BBA - 56GB NixOS 25.05 - 6.12.5 - GCC 13.3.0
test 1 System - 23 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - Gigabyte B650I AORUS ULTRA - AMD Device 14d8 Fedora 41 - 6.11.7-300.fc41.x86_64 - X Server 1.21.1.7
cpu-613rc3 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD Eng Sample 100-000000713-21_N - AMD BirmanPlus-KRK - AMD Device 1122 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.13.0-rc3 - GNOME Shell 46.0
no_ac 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS_BR - AMD Starship Linuxmint 22 - 6.8.0-51-generic - Cinnamon 6.2.9
CPU_GPU_Benchmark 2 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 - NVIDIA Jetson - 62GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.148-tegra - GNOME Shell 42.9

AMD Threadripper 7980X Cooling 3 Systems - 435 Benchmark Results
y 1 System - 35 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework FRANMDCP07 - AMD Device 14e8 Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 5.27.8
vm-on-bd790i-net-cpu-mem-wks 2 Systems - 95 Benchmark Results	16 x AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
auggy Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Pop 22.04 - 5.17.5-76051705-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
okt 2 Systems - 358 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
smoke test xeon e23 3 Systems - 369 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E-2388G - ASRockRack E3C252D4U - Intel Tiger Lake-H Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
tgls Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core i7-1185G7 - Dell 0DXP1F - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
7763 2204 3 Systems - 122 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-phx - GNOME Shell 42.5
2021-09-09-1229 73 Systems - 527 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Intel S2600CW - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Arch Linux - 6.9.7-arch1-1 - GCC 14.1.1 20240522
Intel Optimized Power Mode Xeon Platinum Benchmarks 2 Systems - 520 Benchmark Results	2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592+ - Quanta Cloud S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-13-generic - GCC 13.2.0
xeon auggy 2 Systems - 150 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Ice Lake IEH Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.2.0-rc5-phx-dodt - GNOME Shell 43.0
cddds 3 Systems - 72 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Ice Lake-LP DRAM Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.0-24-generic - GNOME Shell 44.0
new t 2 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - PHX Ray_PEU - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.4.0-060400-generic - KDE Plasma 5.24.7
native vs stock Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASRock X670E Steel Legend - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.5.2-normal - KDE Plasma 5.27.8
pre zenbleed fix 2 Systems - 150 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.4-060204-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.4