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

39 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 55 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-flac2010.122011.052011.102012.032012.082013.012013.062013.112014.042014.092015.022015.072015.122016.052016.102017.032017.082018.012018.062018.112019.042019.092020.022020.072020.122021.052021.102022.032022.082023.012023.062023.112024.042024.0980K160K240K320K400K
* 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 18 December 2024.

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 1,675 public results since 9 September 2022 with the latest data as of 16 December 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.

Component
Percentile Rank
# Compatible Public Results
Seconds (Average)
Apple M4
94th
6
9
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
93rd
9
10
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
93rd
5
11
Intel Core i9-14900K
91st
17
11
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core
91st
8
11
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core
90th
18
11
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core
89th
10
11
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core
89th
8
11
Intel Core i9-13900K
87th
17
11
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
87th
41
11
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core
87th
10
11
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
85th
13
11
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core
84th
8
12
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores
84th
4
12 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core
82nd
9
12
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core
82nd
11
12
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
81st
20
12 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core
81st
5
12
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core
81st
17
12 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores
81st
6
12 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-14600K
81st
8
12
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core
79th
5
12
Intel Core i9-12900K
79th
3
12
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX 24-Cores
79th
7
12
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V
78th
7
12 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
78th
7
12
AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
77th
9
12
Mid-Tier
75th
> 13
Intel Core i5-14500
75th
8
13
Intel Core i5-13600K
75th
14
13
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core
74th
9
13 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-11900K
74th
5
13
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
73rd
10
13
Intel Core i5-12600K
73rd
12
13
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core
73rd
14
13
Apple M2
72nd
4
13
AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core
72nd
7
13
Intel Core i3-14100
71st
8
13
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
70th
4
13
Intel Core i5-14400F
69th
8
14
Intel Core i5-13400
69th
3
14
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
66th
37
14 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
66th
9
14 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U
66th
4
14 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-12700H
65th
3
14 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
65th
17
14
Intel Core i9-10900K
65th
3
14
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
63rd
5
14
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
61st
24
15
Intel Core i7-1185G7
61st
9
15
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores
61st
3
15
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
61st
9
15
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
60th
6
15
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core
59th
9
15
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core
59th
14
15 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
59th
6
15 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core
58th
4
15 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-1280P
58th
14
15 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core
58th
3
15
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
57th
3
16
Intel Core i7-1165G7
56th
6
16 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
55th
19
16 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
55th
6
16 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
55th
6
17
Intel Core i5-12400
54th
8
17 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
53rd
6
17
Intel Core i7-8700
52nd
3
18
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
51st
4
18
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core
51st
5
18 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
51st
6
18
Median
50th
18
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
50th
7
18 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-10875H
50th
5
18
Intel Xeon Gold 6346
49th
3
18
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6346
49th
4
18
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
48th
3
19
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core
47th
4
19
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8362
47th
4
19
2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
46th
3
19
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE
46th
3
19
Intel Core i7-1065G7
46th
5
19 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-6700K
46th
3
19
Intel Core i9-10980XE
45th
5
19
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core
45th
3
19 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
44th
12
19 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6342
44th
4
19
Intel Xeon Gold 6342
44th
4
19
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
44th
7
20 +/- 2
AMD64 23 Model 113 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD
43rd
6
20
Intel Core i7-8565U
42nd
7
20
Intel Core i5-10500
42nd
22
20 +/- 2
Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
42nd
6
20
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
42nd
4
20
AMD Ryzen 7 4800U
41st
3
20
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
41st
6
20 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-1035G1
41st
4
20 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
40th
16
21
Intel Core i7-10700T
40th
7
21
AMD EPYC 7543P 32-Core
38th
10
21 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
38th
3
21
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
37th
4
21
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
37th
5
21
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
36th
4
21
Intel Core i5-6500
36th
8
22 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
35th
4
23
Intel Xeon W-3235
33rd
28
23
AmpereOne 192-Core
33rd
4
23 +/- 1
Intel 0000%
33rd
3
23 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4
31st
3
24
4 x Intel Xeon Gold 6130
30th
3
25
Intel Core i7-4790
30th
3
25 +/- 3
Intel Core i5-4590
29th
3
26 +/- 3
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4
29th
4
27
Intel Core i3-8100T
28th
3
28
Intel Xeon Silver 4216
27th
3
29
2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core
27th
4
29
Intel Core i5-6300U
27th
3
29 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-5960X
26th
3
29
Intel Core i7-13700K
26th
3
31 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-6400T
26th
3
31
Low-Tier
25th
> 31
Intel N100
25th
6
31 +/- 1
Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core
24th
3
33
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
22nd
18
34
Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3
21st
9
35
AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core
21st
3
35 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2
20th
6
37 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-3320M
20th
4
37
Intel Core i5-4250U
19th
4
39 +/- 2
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core
16th
3
47 +/- 5
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core
15th
8
51 +/- 4
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
14th
4
53
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2
13th
33
56 +/- 1
ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core
9th
6
71 +/- 5
AMD A8-6600K APU
8th
4
80 +/- 11
AMD Embedded G GX-420GI Radeon R7E
8th
4
81 +/- 4
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core
7th
22
97 +/- 14
Loongson-3A5000
7th
3
98
rv64imafdcvsu
3rd
8
177 +/- 1
Intel Atom N450
1st
5
443 +/- 5
Detailed Performance Overview
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - WAV To FLAC1675 Results Range From 2 To 2198 Seconds249961431902372843313784254725195666136607077548018488959429891036108311301177122412711318136514121459150615531600164716941741178818351882192919762023207021172164221130060090012001500

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (FLAC Audio Encoding 1.4 - WAV To FLAC) has an average run-time of 4 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: 3.83 / Max: 32

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 1.2%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsWAV To FLACDeviation510152025Min: 0 / Avg: 1.19 / 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 FLAC24681012141624640.66881.33762.00642.67523.344

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, Spacemit X60, rv64imafdcvsu
Loongson LoongArch 64-bit
loongarch64
Loongson-3A5000, Loongson-3A6000-HV
Intel / AMD x86 32-bit
i686
(Many Processors)
ARMv7 32-bit
armv7l
ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A7 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 3 4-Core
ARMv6 32-bit
armv6l
ARMv7
ARMv8 64-bit
arm64
Apple M1, Apple M2, Apple M2 Max, Apple M4
ARMv8 64-bit
aarch64
ARMv8, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-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, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 72-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, AmpereOne 192-Core, Apple M1, Apple M2, Phytium D2000, Qualcomm, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core, rk1-mainline-emmc, rk1-mainline-nvme, rk1-rok-emmc

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