CacheBench

This is a performance test of CacheBench, which is part of LLCbench. CacheBench is designed to test the memory and cache bandwidth performance

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

Project Site

icl.cs.utk.edu

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

10 January 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

2 Seconds

Average Run Time

6 Minutes, 27 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 20k+ Public Benchmark Results

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 17 January 2025.

Revision History

pts/cachebench-1.2.0 [View Source] Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:30:23 GMT
Ensure -O3 is set in its build system.

pts/cachebench-1.1.2 [View Source] Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:38:36 GMT
Fix for FreeBSD

pts/cachebench-1.1.1 [View Source] Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:07:15 GMT
Windows support.

pts/cachebench-1.1.0 [View Source] Wed, 04 Jan 2017 20:24:47 GMT
Change download link to a static one.

pts/cachebench-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:34:54 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Memory Test Suite

CPU Massive

Single-Threaded

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

CacheBench

Test: Read

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,183 public results since 10 January 2024 with the latest data as of 15 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

MB/s (Average)

Intel Core i9-14900K

100th

22519 ^{+/- 511}

Intel Core i7-14700K

100th

20220 ^{+/- 319}

Intel Core i5-12600K

99th

18708 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-1280P

98th

18257 ^{+/- 22}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4416

96th

14863 ^{+/- 20}

Intel Xeon Silver 4416

96th

14856 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

93rd

14090 ^{+/- 268}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

93rd

13715 ^{+/- 571}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

92nd

13499 ^{+/- 83}

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

92nd

13343 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

90th

12863 ^{+/- 107}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

90th

12614 ^{+/- 535}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

89th

12552 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

89th

12395 ^{+/- 103}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

88th

12358 ^{+/- 520}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

87th

11912 ^{+/- 530}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

87th

11862 ^{+/- 54}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

87th

11778 ^{+/- 73}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

86th

11543

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

86th

11439

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

83rd

11274 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

82nd

11050 ^{+/- 20}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

81st

10897 ^{+/- 46}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

79th

10520 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

79th

10228 ^{+/- 13}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

76th

9892 ^{+/- 1}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 9888

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

69th

9837 ^{+/- 426}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

60th

9390 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

56th

9088 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

56th

9054 ^{+/- 239}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

55th

8946 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

55th

8906

Intel Core i7-1165G7

55th

8885 ^{+/- 6}

Apple M2

55th

8884 ^{+/- 6}

Intel N95

53rd

8571 ^{+/- 61}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

51st

8410 ^{+/- 58}

Median

50th

8362

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

50th

8343 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i7-8565U

47th

7855 ^{+/- 9}

AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core

47th

7809 ^{+/- 941}

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

47th

7641 ^{+/- 647}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

47th

7628 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 8534PN 32-Core

46th

7616

AMD EPYC 8324P 32-Core

46th

7615 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

45th

7581 ^{+/- 19}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

44th

7326 ^{+/- 43}

Intel Core i5-7500

36th

6972 ^{+/- 247}

Low-Tier

25th

< 6611

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

9th

6060 ^{+/- 2}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218

7th

5327

rv64imafdcv

6th

4940 ^{+/- 109}

AmpereOne 192-Core

6th

4879

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core

5th

4581 ^{+/- 522}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

4th

4355 ^{+/- 372}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (CacheBench - Test: Read) has an average run-time of 7 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.

COMISD MULSD SUBSD CVTSI2SD DIVSD MOVAPD ADDSD UNPCKLPD MOVUPD ADDPD

Last automated analysis: 11 January 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libc.so.6.

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)

RISC-V 64-bit

riscv64

SiFive RISC-V, Spacemit X60, rv64imafdcv, rv64imafdcvsu

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

(Many Processors)

Intel / AMD x86 32-bit

i686

(Many Processors)

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 rev 3 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2, AmpereOne 192-Core, Apple M2, Phytium D2000, Rockchip ARMv8 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core, Rockchip RK3588S

amd-athlon-700 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD Athlon - VIA VT8366 - VIA VT8366 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-15-686 - GCC 12.2.0
cachebench_before 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6200U - HP ProBook 650 G2 80FD - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-28-amd64 - GNOME Shell 43.9
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 25 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 25 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 25 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719

2024 year 4 Systems - 100 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores - ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-13-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
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
Xeon Max Linux 6.9 Kernel Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480 - Supermicro SYS-221H-TNR X13DEM v1.10 - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.9.0-060900rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
2024-03-28-1658 76 Systems - 921 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
2024-01-31-1541 62 Systems - 456 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Intel S2600CWR - Intel Xeon E7 v4 SystemRescue 10.01 - 6.1.30-1-lts - X Server 1.21.1.8
tgl tgl 3 Systems - 79 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1185G7 - Dell XPS 13 9310 0DXP1F - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
cpuall_v2 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
2024-03-31-1305 27 Systems - 162 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Arch Linux - 6.8.2-arch2-1 - GCC 13.2.1 20230801
jlp-benchmark-mix-old-cpu 2 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6600 - ASUS H170 PRO GAMING - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 openSUSE 20240209 - 6.7.4-1-default - KDE Plasma 6.0.80
xeon jan 3 Systems - 69 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
2024-06-14-1915 44 Systems - 425 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-14700K - ASUS ProArt B760-CREATOR - Intel Device 7a27 SystemRescue 10.01 - 6.1.30-1-lts - X Server 1.21.1.8
cpu-bench 2 Systems - 390 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Mixtile Blade 3 v1.0.1 - 16GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.10.160-rockchip - GNOME Shell 42.9
85c-40mv-undervolt Featured OpenGL Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core - ASRock B650M Pro RS WiFi - AMD Device 14d8 EndeavourOS rolling - 6.7.1-lqx1-1-lqx - GNOME Shell 45.3
rpyc jan 2 Systems - 262 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
fg 2 Systems - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-39-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2

CacheBench

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Test Created

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Test Dependencies

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Suites Using This Test

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CacheBench

Test: Read

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

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