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 1,321 public results since 14 March 2024 with the latest data as of 15 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 - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U - LENOVO ThinkPad P16s Gen 2 21K9001MUS - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-40-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
4 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U - HP 8864 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 - GCC 9.4.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i9-9900K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING - Intel Cannon Lake PCH ManjaroLinux 24.0.6 - 6.6.44-1-MANJARO - KDE Plasma 6.0.5 |
1 System - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core - ASRock X399 Professional Gaming - AMD 17h Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-40-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
3 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U - HP 8864 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 - GCC 9.4.0 |
1 System - 11 Benchmark Results |
20 x Intel Xeon Gold 6230R - QEMU Standard PC - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 5.15.0-78-generic - GCC 9.4.0 |
1 System - 11 Benchmark Results |
20 x Intel Xeon Gold 6230R - QEMU Standard PC - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 5.15.0-78-generic - GCC 9.4.0 |
2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U - HP 8864 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 - GCC 9.4.0 |
2 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-39-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
1 System - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U - HP 8864 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 - GCC 9.4.0 |
1 System - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core - ASRock X399 Professional Gaming - AMD 17h Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-40-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
1 System - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core - ASRock X399 Professional Gaming - AMD 17h Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-40-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
1 System - 102 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-phx - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
1 System - 2 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core - ASRock X399 Professional Gaming - AMD 17h Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-40-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
1 System - 50 Benchmark Results |
AmpereOne - QEMU KVM Virtual Machine - Red Hat QEMU PCIe Oracle Linux Server 9.4 - 5.15.0-207.156.6.el9uek.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
Featured Kernel Comparison |
2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.9.0-060900rc1daily20240327-generic - GCC 13.2.0 |
2 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
Intel 0000% - ASUS Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Fedora 39 - 6.7.7-200.fc39.x86_64 - OpenCL 3.0 + OpenCL 1.2 Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL 20.3 + OpenCL 3.0 LINUX + OpenCL 1.2 Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL 20.3 |
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 |
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 |
3 Systems - 413 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework Laptop 13 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc4daily20240621-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
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 |
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 |
4 Systems - 2 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 |
3 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core - AMD Cinnabar - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-15-generic - GNOME Shell |
3 Systems - 177 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon E E-2488 - Supermicro Super Server X13SCL-F v0123456789 - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9 |
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 |
4 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon E E-2488 - Supermicro Super Server X13SCL-F v0123456789 - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9 |
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 |
8 Systems - 25 Benchmark Results |
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 |
Featured Kernel Comparison |
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-rc2-stock - GNOME Shell 46.0 |