This test times how long it takes to build the Linux kernel in a default configuration.
To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark build-linux-kernel.
OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,430 public results since 14 March 2024 with the latest data as of 29 August 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.
Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 6.8 - Build: defconfig) has an average run-time of 14 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 0.8%.
Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does 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.
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.
1 System - 24 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8223CL - Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge - 70GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 m6gd.8xlarge - 128GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 m6gd.8xlarge - 128GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 m6gd.8xlarge - 128GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 63 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - ASRock B650 Pro RS - AMD Device 14d8 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64 - Cinnamon 6.2.9 |
1 System - 121 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 m7g.large - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-1008-aws - 4.5 Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.1 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M - Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge - 70GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M - Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge - 70GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M - Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge - 70GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 124 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 m6i.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-1008-aws - 4.5 Mesa 24.0.5-1ubuntu1 |
1 System - 24 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M - Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge - 70GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M - Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge - 70GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 126 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 m7g.large - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-1008-aws - 4.5 Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.1 |
1 System - 26 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 m6gd.8xlarge - 128GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1057-aws - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 124 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 m7g.xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-1008-aws - 4.5 Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.1 |
Featured Kernel Comparison |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.10.0-arch1-1 - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland |
6 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.10.0-arch1-1 - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland |
3 Systems - 413 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc4daily20240621-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
Featured Kernel Comparison |
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-rc2-mtl-patch - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
Featured Kernel Comparison |
2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.0-060800-generic - GCC 13.2.0 |
4 Systems - 62 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 |
2 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO ThinkPad X13 Gen 3 21CM0001US - AMD 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.7-300.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.0 |
2 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7413 24-Core - GIGABYTE MZ32-AR0-00 v01000100 - AMD Starship Rocky Linux 9.3 - 5.14.0-362.24.1.el9_3.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.10 |
4 Systems - 70 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 |
2 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-18-amd64 - X Server 1.20.11 |
18 Systems - 442 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
4 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores - ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-15-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0 |
4 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-25-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2 |
1 System - 47 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.10.0-3-cachyos - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland |
2 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-18-amd64 - X Server 1.20.11 |