LAME MP3 Encoding

LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark encode-mp3.

Project Site

lame.sourceforge.net

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

3 September 2019

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

Average Install Time

38 Seconds

Average Run Time

2 Minutes, 14 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 20k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

Public Result UploadsTest Completions*Reported Installs*OpenBenchmarking.orgEventsLAME MP3 Encoding Popularity Statisticspts/encode-mp32011.042011.082011.122012.042012.082012.122013.042013.082013.122014.042014.082014.122015.042015.082015.122016.042016.082016.122017.042017.082017.122018.042018.082018.122019.042019.082019.122020.042020.082020.122021.0480K160K240K320K400K
* 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.
Data current as of Sat, 10 Apr 2021 10:01:24 GMT.

Revision History

pts/encode-mp3-1.7.4   [View Source]   Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:05:20 GMT
Fix for autoconf to help Arm patch, per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/91

pts/encode-mp3-1.7.3   [View Source]   Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:54:19 GMT
Add Windows support.

pts/encode-mp3-1.7.2   [View Source]   Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:12:04 GMT
Fix patch from previous test profile update. Ref: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/36

pts/encode-mp3-1.7.1   [View Source]   Sun, 23 Sep 2018 19:48:19 GMT
Build system fixes/updates for IBM POWER.

pts/encode-mp3-1.7.0   [View Source]   Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:19:00 GMT
Update against upstream LAME 3.100 release.

pts/encode-mp3-1.6.0   [View Source]   Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:32:43 GMT
Update against 3.99.5, include more download references

pts/encode-mp3-1.5.0   [View Source]   Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:06:43 GMT
Add --enable-expopt=full to LAME build

pts/encode-mp3-1.4.0   [View Source]   Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:52:31 GMT
Update encode-mp3 against upstream LAME 3.99.3

pts/encode-mp3-1.3.1   [View Source]   Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:41:15 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:

LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100

WAV To MP3

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 7,340 public results since 7 February 2018 with the latest data as of 10 April 2021.

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
# Matching Public Results
Seconds (Average)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
100th
11
6
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core
99th
36
6
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
99th
59
6
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
99th
14
6
Intel Core i5-11600K
99th
5
7
Intel Core i9-11900K
99th
10
7
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core
99th
4
7
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
97th
11
7
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core
96th
3
7
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
95th
12
7 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-9900KS
95th
8
7
Intel Core i5-10600K
94th
13
7
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
94th
23
8 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-10885H
94th
4
8 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core
92nd
3
8
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
92nd
7
8
Intel Core i3-10100
91st
3
8
AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core
91st
13
8 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-1065G7
91st
29
8 +/- 1
Intel Core i3-9100
91st
3
8
AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core
91st
7
9
Intel Core i7-10510U
90th
7
9
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
89th
4
9
Intel Core i5-1035G1
89th
3
9
Intel Core i5-8365U
87th
3
9
AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core
86th
4
9
AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core
86th
7
9
AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core
86th
7
9
AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core
86th
7
9
2 x AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core
86th
6
9
AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core
84th
7
10
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core
84th
11
10
AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core
84th
6
10
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6230R
84th
4
10
AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core
84th
6
10
AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core
84th
7
10 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core
83rd
3
10
AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core
83rd
9
10
Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
82nd
6
10
AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core
82nd
4
10
AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core
82nd
4
10
Intel Xeon W-2295
82nd
3
10
AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core
81st
6
10
AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core
81st
8
10 +/- 1
AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core
81st
7
10 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
81st
8
10 +/- 1
Intel Core i3-6100
80th
3
10
Intel Celeron G5900
80th
4
10
AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core
80th
15
10 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core
80th
4
10 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core
80th
3
11 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Silver 4215R
79th
3
11
2 x AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core
79th
3
11 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 5217
79th
4
11
Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3
77th
13
11 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-4440
77th
3
11
Intel Core i7-3770K
76th
14
11 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-4960X
76th
13
12 +/- 1
Mid-Tier
75th
> 12
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 2-Core
75th
22
12
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 8-Core
74th
18
12
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 32-Core
74th
18
12
Intel Xeon D-2183IT
74th
5
12
Intel Xeon Silver 4214R
73rd
3
12
Intel Xeon Silver 4216
73rd
7
12
Intel Core i7-3960X
73rd
6
12 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 5218
71st
6
13
AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core
68th
4
14
Intel Core i5-5300U
67th
12
14 +/- 1
Intel Core i7 990X
66th
18
14 +/- 1
AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core
65th
8
14 +/- 2
2 x AMD Opteron 6380
61st
3
18 +/- 2
ARMv8 Cortex-A72
59th
5
20
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
57th
3
24
ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core
54th
5
27
Intel Core i9-7900X
54th
7
27 +/- 2
Intel Core i5-9500
53rd
3
27
Intel Core i9-8950HK
53rd
6
28 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-8600K
53rd
3
28
Loongson-3A R4
52nd
3
29 +/- 3
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6144
52nd
7
29
Intel Core i5-8500
52nd
3
29
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core
51st
4
30 +/- 3
Intel Core i7-7820X
51st
3
30
Median
50th
30
Intel Core i7-7600U
49th
4
31
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8268
49th
4
31 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6240
48th
3
31
Intel Xeon Gold 6210U
48th
3
32
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6230
48th
7
32
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4
48th
3
32
Intel Core i5-8259U
47th
3
32
Intel Core i5-6600
47th
8
32 +/- 2
Intel Pentium Gold G5400
47th
3
32
Intel Core i5-7500
46th
10
32 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-4770
46th
5
32
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6140
46th
9
33 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6130
45th
6
33
Intel Core i7-7700T
42nd
8
34 +/- 4
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 12-Core
42nd
19
34 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2
41st
11
35 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4
40th
8
35
Intel Core i7-6700T
40th
3
35
Intel Core i5-7400
39th
4
36
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
38th
3
36
Intel Core i3-4150
38th
3
36
Intel Core i5-7260U
38th
3
36 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-7300U
38th
3
36 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega
37th
6
37 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
36th
4
37 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 6148
36th
3
37
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2
35th
12
38 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-6400
34th
3
38 +/- 3
Intel Core i7-2600
34th
10
38 +/- 2
Intel Pentium Dual T2310
33rd
3
39 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E31245
33rd
3
39 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-2500
32nd
3
39
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8168
32nd
5
39 +/- 2
2 x AMD Opteron 270
31st
3
40
Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4
30th
4
41 +/- 3
AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
30th
20
41 +/- 4
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118
30th
24
41 +/- 4
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U w
30th
3
41 +/- 5
Intel Core i7-5500U
30th
3
41
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4
29th
9
42
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2643 0
29th
3
42 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4
28th
6
43
AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core
28th
7
43 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 1400
28th
7
43 +/- 4
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3
27th
4
43 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-6260U
27th
4
43
2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114
27th
16
44 +/- 4
Intel Core i5-4300U
27th
3
44 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4
27th
5
44 +/- 6
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
26th
4
45
Low-Tier
25th
> 45
Intel Core i5-2320
25th
4
45 +/- 2
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4
22nd
4
47
Intel Core m3-7Y30
22nd
5
47 +/- 2
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 0
21st
5
47
Intel Xeon X5675
21st
6
48 +/- 6
Intel Core i5-2430M
21st
4
48
AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core
20th
17
48 +/- 2
Intel Core i5-4210U
19th
5
50 +/- 4
2 x AMD EPYC 7301 16-Core
19th
11
51
2 x Intel Xeon X5675
19th
3
51
AMD EPYC 7281 16-Core
18th
4
52 +/- 1
Intel Pentium 4415U
18th
3
52
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2
18th
3
52 +/- 2
Intel Pentium G620
17th
3
54
AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core
17th
4
54 +/- 6
AMD FX-4300
17th
3
54
AMD A6-5400K APU
17th
3
55
Intel Core i7 920
16th
6
58 +/- 6
Intel Xeon E5649
16th
3
58 +/- 1
Intel Core i5 760
16th
3
58 +/- 2
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
16th
3
59 +/- 2
AMD Phenom II X4 960T
16th
7
60 +/- 3
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500
16th
3
60
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2450L 0
15th
3
63 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon E5540
15th
3
63 +/- 2
AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core
15th
8
66 +/- 8
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
14th
5
67 +/- 1
4 x Intel Xeon X7460
14th
4
67
AMD Phenom II X4 955
14th
3
69
Intel Core 2 Duo P8700
13th
4
71 +/- 5
Intel Core 2 Duo P8600
13th
3
72 +/- 3
2 x Intel Xeon E5520
13th
3
72 +/- 4
POWER9 8-Core
12th
3
75 +/- 1
POWER9 altivec supported 64-Core
12th
13
77 +/- 3
AMD Athlon 7750
11th
3
83 +/- 1
Intel Celeron J3455
11th
4
86 +/- 1
2 x AMD Opteron 6180 SE
10th
5
88 +/- 4
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000
10th
5
88
Intel Core 2 Duo T7100
10th
11
91
ARMv8 rev 3 4-Core
9th
7
98 +/- 3
AMD Athlon X2 BE-2300
9th
3
106 +/- 7
Intel Xeon D-2123IT
8th
3
112 +/- 8
ARMv8 rev 1 4-Core
5th
18
137 +/- 12
Intel Atom E3845
5th
4
154 +/- 1
Intel Celeron M 900MHz
4th
3
226 +/- 2
ARMv7 rev 10 4-Core
3rd
4
296 +/- 1
ARMv7 rev 4 4-Core
2nd
64
320 +/- 24
Loongson-3A3000 V0.9 FPU V0.1
2nd
4
350
ARMv7 rev 10 2-Core
1st
3
393 +/- 41
ARMv7 rev 5 4-Core
1st
25
482 +/- 61
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - WAV To MP37339 Results Range From 5 To 1719 Seconds5468712816921025129233337441545649753857962066170274378482586690794898910301071111211531194123512761317135813991440148115221563160416451686172712002400360048006000

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 - WAV To MP3) has an average run-time of 2 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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkWAV To MP3Run-Time48121620Min: 1 / Avg: 1.68 / Max: 13

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.3%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsWAV To MP3Deviation3691215Min: 0 / Avg: 0.31 / Max: 7

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.

AMDIntelOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To BaseLAME MP3 Encoding CPU Core ScalingWAV To MP32468121620243248641.40212.80424.20635.60847.0105

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.
 
MOVD PSHUFD MOVDQA CVTSS2SD COMISD MULSD PUNPCKLQDQ PMULUDQ PADDQ CVTSI2SD ADDSD CVTTSD2SI MOVDQU CVTDQ2PD ADDPD PSRLDQ MOVAPD UNPCKHPD DIVSD CVTTPS2DQ SUBSD XORPD CVTSD2SS MAXSD MINSD UNPCKLPD CVTPS2PD MOVUPD ANDPD CMPNLESD MOVHPD CVTPD2PS CVTDQ2PS MULPD SUBPD SQRTPD SQRTSD CMPLTPD DIVPD
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: sandybridge, skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VPERM2F128 VBROADCASTSS VMASKMOVPS VPERMILPS VBROADCASTSD
Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).
 
VPBROADCASTQ VPERMQ VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTD VPERM2I128 VPMASKMOVQ VPGATHERDD VINSERTI128 VPERMD VGATHERDPS VPMASKMOVD VPBLENDD VPBROADCASTW VPBROADCASTB
FMA (FMA)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VFMADD132PS VFMADD213PS VFMADD132SD VFMADD213SD VFMADD132SS VFMADD231SS VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD231SS VFNMADD132SS VFNMADD213SS VFMADD231PS VFNMADD132SD VFNMADD231SD VFNMADD132PD VFMADD132PD VFNMADD231PD VFMSUB132SS VFMADD231SD VFNMADD132PS VFNMADD213PD VFNMADD213SD VFMSUB132SD VFMADD213SS VFMSUB132PS VFMSUB231SD VFMSUB213SS VFMADD213PD VFNMADD231PS VFMSUB231PS
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 30 January 2021

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libncurses.so.6, libtinfo.so.6, libm.so.6, libmvec.so.1, libc.so.6, libdl.so.2.

Recent Test Results

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1 System - 6 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

1 System - 5 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

1 System - 5 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

2 Systems - 5 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

2 Systems - 5 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

5 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

1 System - 5 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

4 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

3 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

5 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

5 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

3 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 - Xen HVM domU - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC

Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1038-aws - GCC 9.3.0

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