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 1,651 public results since 14 March 2024 with the latest data as of 26 September 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 15 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 - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x Hygon C86 7380 32-core - Hygon SXYH041040 - Chengdu Haiguang IC Design Root Complex CentOS Linux 7 - 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 - GCC 4.8.5 20150623 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i5-12400 - ASUS PRIME B660M-A WIFI D4 - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Arch rolling - 6.10.9-arch1-1 - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Garuda Soaring - 6.6.52-1-lts - KDE Plasma 6.1.5 |
1 System - 21 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - Gigabyte B650I AORUS ULTRA - AMD Device 14d8 Fedora 40 - 6.10.9-200.fc40.x86_64 - X Server 1.21.1.7 |
4 Systems - 29 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 - ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-13-amd64 - KDE Plasma |
2 Systems - 7 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Garuda Soaring - 6.6.52-1-lts - KDE Plasma 6.1.5 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Garuda Soaring - 6.6.52-1-lts - KDE Plasma 6.1.5 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-13700F - 32GB - 9GB Virtual Disk + 275GB Virtual Disk Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 - Wayland |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Xeon Silver 4112 - Dell 0CRT1G - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-119-generic - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 25 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS M5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Arch rolling - 6.11.0-1-mainline-um5606-dirty - GNOME Shell 47.0 |
2 Systems - 43 Benchmark Results |
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6430 - N/A X640 G50 60EA32X v24003523 - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-121-generic - GCC 11.4.0 + CUDA 12.4 |
1 System - 25 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS M5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Arch rolling - 6.11.0-1-mainline-um5606-dirty - GNOME Shell 47.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Xeon Silver 4112 - Dell 0CRT1G - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-119-generic - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 25 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Arch rolling - 6.10.10-arch1-1 - GNOME Shell 47.0 |
3 Systems - 413 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc4daily20240621-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
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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 |
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.9.8-arch1-1 - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland |
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18 Systems - 442 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
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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 |
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2 Systems - 1012 Benchmark Results |
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2 Systems - 95 Benchmark Results
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16 x AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
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3 Systems - 111 Benchmark Results
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2 x AMD EPYC 9734 112-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-22-generic - GCC 13.2.0
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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
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2 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results
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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
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4 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results
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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
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73 Systems - 527 Benchmark Results
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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
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4 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results
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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
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76 Systems - 921 Benchmark Results
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Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P - Intel Device 7a27 SystemRescue 10.01 - 6.1.30-1-lts - X Server 1.21.1.8
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2 Systems - 552 Benchmark Results
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