WavPack Audio Encoding

This test times how long it takes to encode a sample WAV file to WavPack format with very high quality settings.

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

Project Site

wavpack.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

1 March 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Average Install Time

5 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 3 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + CMake

Accolades

200k+ Downloads

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 26 November 2024.

Revision History

pts/encode-wavpack-1.5.0 [View Source] Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:56:33 GMT
Update against WavPack 5.7, enable new multi-threaded support.

pts/encode-wavpack-1.4.1 [View Source] Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:53:52 GMT
Enable Windows build.

pts/encode-wavpack-1.4.0 [View Source] Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:33:36 GMT
Update against latest upstream.

pts/encode-wavpack-1.3.2 [View Source] Sun, 27 Sep 2020 10:42:12 GMT
Deprecate test profile.

pts/encode-wavpack-1.3.0 [View Source] Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:07:22 GMT
Update against latest upstream

pts/encode-wavpack-1.2.1 [View Source] Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:22:35 GMT
Update download links.

pts/encode-wavpack-1.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:41:49 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Audio Encoding

Encoding

Creator Workloads

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

WavPack Audio Encoding 5.7

WAV To WavPack

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 191 public results since 1 March 2024 with the latest data as of 22 November 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)

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

99th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX 24-Cores

94th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

94th

Intel Core i9-14900K

91st

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

90th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

87th

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

84th

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core

78th

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

77th

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

77th

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

76th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 5

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

71st

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core

69th

Intel Core i5-12600K

63rd

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

62nd

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

59th

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

59th

6 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

58th

Intel Core i7-1280P

53rd

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

52nd

6 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

51st

Median

50th

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

47th

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

47th

Intel Core i5-14400F

42nd

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

40th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

34th

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

31st

Intel Core i9-10980XE

30th

Intel Core i7-5960X

28th

Low-Tier

25th

> 11

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

25th

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

24th

Intel Core i7-1165G7

20th

Intel Core i7-8565U

19th

ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 72-Core

16th

Intel Core i7-1185G7

14th

Intel Core i7-1065G7

14th

16 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

13th

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

9th

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

8th

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (WavPack Audio Encoding 5.7 - WAV To WavPack) 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.

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

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.

CVTSD2SS CVTSI2SD MOVAPD DIVSD SUBSD MULSD ADDSD COMISD UCOMISD CVTTSD2SI CVTSS2SD ANDPD MOVD

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).

VBROADCASTSS VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VZEROUPPER VPERM2F128

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).

VPBROADCASTD VPERMQ VEXTRACTI128 VINSERTI128 VPERM2I128 VPMASKMOVD VPSRAVD VPGATHERDD VPBROADCASTW VPBROADCASTB

FMA (FMA)

VFMADD132SD VFNMADD132SD VFMADD213SD VFMADD231SD VFMADD132SS

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: 2 March 2024

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

rv64imafdc_zicntr_zicsr_zifencei_zihpm_xtheadvector, rv64imafdcv, rv64imafdcvsu

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 72-Core

2024-11-22-1210 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Pentium G3220 - ASUS All H81M-C - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Debian 12 - 6.1.0-27-amd64 - Xfce 4.18
p4a-vics-006 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	rv64imafdc_zicntr_zicsr_zifencei_zihpm_xtheadvector - Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A 16G - 16GB Debian - 6.6.52-th1520 - Xfce 4.18
pc 19 Systems - 2903 Benchmark Results
pc 17 Systems - 2641 Benchmark Results
pc 16 Systems - 2626 Benchmark Results
pc 16 Systems - 2616 Benchmark Results
pc 15 Systems - 2606 Benchmark Results
2024-10-29-2318 1 System - 141 Benchmark Results	rv64imafdcvsu - T-HEAD Light Lichee Pi 4A configuration for 16GB DDR board - 16GB Debian - 5.10.113-lpi4a - X Server 1.21.1.8
pc 12 Systems - 2543 Benchmark Results
2024-10-08-1657 1 System - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - ASRock B450M Pro4-F R2.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.4-061004-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
2024-10-07-1721 1 System - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-B - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.11.0-061100-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
2024-10-06-1504 1 System - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - GIGABYTE MC12-LE0-00 v01000100 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.11.0-061100-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
2024-10-05-2043 1 System - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-B - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.11.0-061100-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
r9-7900x 3 Systems - 46 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment MS-A1 A5WSR v1.1 - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.8.0-45-generic - 1.3.255
Lunar Lake Windows CPU 1 System - 64 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS UX5406SA - 8 x 2048MB 8533MHz Samsung Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 26100 - 10.0.26100.1742 - 32.0.101.5730

Lunar Lake Windows CPU 1 System - 64 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS UX5406SA - 8 x 2048MB 8533MHz Samsung Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 26100 - 10.0.26100.1742 - 32.0.101.5730
new fri 3 Systems - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 - AMD 17h Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
GCC 14 vs. Clang 18 - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Featured Compiler Comparison	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.1
new s march 3 Systems - 17 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
ddddx 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
lslsls 2 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO ThinkPad X13 Gen 3 21CM0001US - AMD 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.7-300.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.0
one fur 2 Systems - 56 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.0-060800rc1daily20240126-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
8500g new 2 Systems - 69 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G - ASRock B650 Pro RS - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.3-060703-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
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 - 6.8.0-060800-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
r9-7900x 4 Systems - 323 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME X670-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-107-generic - KDE Plasma 5.24.7
cxl march s 3 Systems - 17 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-18-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
kdlkf 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
jxl 0.10.1 threadripper 3 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-21-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
5850u march 2 Systems - 100 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - LENOVO ThinkPad T14s Gen 2a 20XF004WUS - AMD Renoir Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.8-300.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.0
jpegxl gh200 nvidia 3 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid S74G-2U 1S7GZ9Z0000 S7G MB - 1 x 480GB DRAM-6400MT Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-1007-NVIDIA-64k - NVIDIA