FLAC Audio Encoding

This test times how long it takes to encode a sample WAV file to FLAC audio format ten times using the --best preset settings.

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

Project Site

xiph.org

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

22 October 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

Average Install Time

43 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 28 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 10k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

Public Result Uploads *Reported Test Completions **Reported Installs **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEventsFLAC Audio Encoding Popularity Statisticspts/encode-flac2010.122011.052011.102012.032012.082013.012013.062013.112014.042014.092015.022015.072015.122016.052016.102017.032017.082018.012018.062018.112019.042019.092020.022020.072020.122021.052021.102022.032022.082023.012023.062023.1170K140K210K280K350K
* 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 28 November 2023.

Revision History

pts/encode-flac-1.8.1   [View Source]   Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:35:52 GMT
Update against FLAC 1.4.2 for latest build system fixes / compiler improvemnts.

pts/encode-flac-1.8.0   [View Source]   Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:52:08 GMT
Update against new upstream FLAC 1.4 release. Also new release takes care of FLAC AArch64 issue noted in: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/issues/668

pts/encode-flac-1.7.0   [View Source]   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:05:54 GMT
Update against (belated) FLAC 1.3.3 upstream release and add system dependency check for Ogg header.

pts/encode-flac-1.6.0   [View Source]   Sun, 04 Mar 2018 09:38:58 GMT
Update against FLAC 1.3.2 from 1.3.1, add Windows support.

pts/encode-flac-1.5.0   [View Source]   Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:14:40 GMT
Change encode-flac run times for audio conversion to three due to fast run times on modern CPUs.

pts/encode-flac-1.4.0   [View Source]   Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:09:10 GMT
Update encode-flac against new upstream FLAC 1.3.1 release.

pts/encode-flac-1.3.0   [View Source]   Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:40:13 GMT
Update against upstream Xiph.Org FLAC 1.3.0.

pts/encode-flac-1.2.0   [View Source]   Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:41:03 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Audio Encoding

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Encoding

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Single-Threaded


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

FLAC Audio Encoding 1.4

WAV To FLAC

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 887 public results since 9 September 2022 with the latest data as of 2 December 2023.

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)
Intel Core i9-14900K
99th
7
11
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
98th
28
11 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-13900K
97th
14
11
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
95th
9
11
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core
94th
4
12
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core
93rd
7
12
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
92nd
14
12 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core
91st
6
12
Intel Core i9-12900K
90th
3
12
Intel Core i5-13600K
88th
11
13
Intel Core i9-11900K
87th
5
13
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
86th
10
13
Intel Core i5-12600K
85th
12
13
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core
85th
7
13 +/- 1
Apple M2
84th
4
13
Apple M1
80th
17
14
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
79th
32
14 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
79th
7
14
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U
79th
4
14 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-10900K
77th
3
14
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
76th
5
14
Mid-Tier
75th
> 15
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core
75th
4
15
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores
74th
3
15
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
74th
5
15
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
74th
9
15
Intel Core i7-1185G7
73rd
3
15
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core
72nd
4
15 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core
71st
3
15
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
70th
3
16
Intel Core i7-1165G7
69th
6
16 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-1280P
68th
8
17
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
68th
12
17 +/- 2
Intel Core i5-12400
66th
8
17 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
65th
6
17
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core
65th
4
18
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
63rd
4
18
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
63rd
6
18
Intel Xeon Gold 6346
61st
3
18
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6346
61st
4
18
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
59th
3
19
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core
59th
4
19
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8362
58th
4
19
2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
57th
3
19
Intel Core i7-1065G7
56th
4
19 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-6700K
56th
3
19
Intel Core i9-10980XE
55th
5
19
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core
54th
3
19 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
54th
12
19 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6342
53rd
4
19
Intel Xeon Gold 6342
53rd
4
19
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
53rd
6
20 +/- 2
AMD64 23 Model 113 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD
52nd
6
20
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
51st
3
20
Intel Core i7-8565U
51st
6
20
Median
50th
20
Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
50th
6
20
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
49th
4
20
AMD Ryzen 7 4800U
49th
3
20
Intel Core i5-1035G1
48th
4
20 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-10700T
47th
7
21
Intel Core i5-10500
46th
6
21 +/- 2
AMD EPYC 7543P 32-Core
46th
8
21 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
44th
3
21
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
44th
4
21
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
44th
5
21
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
42nd
4
21
Intel Core i5-6500
42nd
8
22 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
41st
4
23
Intel Xeon W-3235
38th
28
23
Intel 0000%
38th
3
23 +/- 1
4 x Intel Xeon Gold 6130
34th
3
25
Intel Core i7-4790
33rd
3
25 +/- 3
Intel Core i5-4590
33rd
3
26 +/- 3
Intel Xeon Silver 4216
31st
3
29
2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core
30th
4
29
Intel Core i7-5960X
29th
3
29
Intel Core i7-13700K
29th
3
31 +/- 1
Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core
27th
3
33
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core
26th
19
34
Low-Tier
25th
> 34
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
24th
4
34
Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3
23rd
9
35
AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core
22nd
3
35 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2
21st
6
37 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-3320M
21st
4
37
Intel Core i5-4250U
20th
4
39 +/- 2
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core
17th
3
47 +/- 5
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core
16th
6
52 +/- 3
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
15th
4
53
ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core
11th
3
70
ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core
11th
6
71 +/- 5
AMD A8-6600K APU
10th
4
80 +/- 11
AMD Embedded G GX-420GI Radeon R7E
10th
4
81 +/- 4
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core
9th
13
92 +/- 12
Loongson-3A5000
7th
3
98
ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core
3rd
8
207 +/- 20
Intel Atom N450
1st
5
443 +/- 5
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - WAV To FLAC883 Results Range From 9 To 1470 Seconds947851231611992372753133513894274655035415796176556937317698078458839219599971035107311111149118712251263130113391377141514531491160320480640800

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (FLAC Audio Encoding 1.4 - WAV To FLAC) has an average run-time of 5 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 5 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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkWAV To FLACRun-Time714212835Min: 1 / Avg: 4.28 / Max: 30

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.6%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsWAV To FLACDeviation510152025Min: 0 / Avg: 0.62 / Max: 18

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.

IntelAMDOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To BaseFLAC Audio Encoding CPU Core ScalingWAV To FLAC4681216240.42290.84581.26871.69162.1145

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.
 
MOVDQA MOVAPD ADDSD MULSD CVTSI2SD SUBSD MOVUPD UNPCKLPD MULPD ADDPD DIVSD DIVPD UCOMISD SQRTSD PUNPCKLQDQ MOVD ANDPD CVTTSD2SI ANDNPD CMPNLESD ORPD MOVDQU COMISD PSHUFD PADDQ XORPD CVTSD2SS CVTSS2SD PSRLDQ PSLLDQ CVTDQ2PS CVTPS2PD UNPCKHPD MOVHPD SHUFPD CVTPD2PS MAXSD PMULUDQ MINSD SUBPD PSHUFLW CVTDQ2PD
SSSE3 (SSSE3)
Used by default on supported hardware.
 
PABSD PALIGNR
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VZEROUPPER VBROADCASTSS VINSERTF128 VPERM2F128 VPERMILPS VEXTRACTF128 VPERMILPD VBROADCASTSD
Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).
 
VPBROADCASTD VPERMD VEXTRACTI128 VINSERTI128 VPERMQ VPERM2I128 VPGATHERQQ VPBROADCASTQ VPERMPD VPGATHERQD VPBROADCASTW
FMA (FMA)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VFMADD213PD VFMADD213SD VFMADD231PD VFMADD132PD VFMADD231SD VFMADD132SD VFMSUB231SS VFMADD231SS VFMSUB231SD VFNMADD231SD VFNMADD132SD VFNMADD132SS VFMADD132SS VFNMADD231SS VFNMADD132PD
Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: cascadelake, sapphirerapids).
 
(ZMM REGISTER USE)
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 17 November 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libFLAC.so.12, libm.so.6, libc.so.6, libogg.so.0.

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
Loongson LoongArch 64-bit
loongarch64
Loongson-3A5000
Intel / AMD x86 32-bit
i686
(Many Processors)
ARMv7 32-bit
armv7l
ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core
ARMv6 32-bit
armv6l
ARMv7
ARMv8 64-bit
arm64
Apple M1, Apple M2, Apple M2 Max
ARMv8 64-bit
aarch64
ARMv8, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M1, Apple M2, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

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