Intel Memory Latency Checker Benchmark

Intel Memory Latency Checker (MLC) is a binary-only system memory bandwidth and latency benchmark. If the download fails you may need to manually download the file from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/intelr-memory-latency-checker.html and place it in your PTS download cache. On some systems root privileges are needed to run the MLC tester.

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

* 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.
Data updated weekly as of 21 April 2024.

Revision History

pts/intel-mlc-1.1.0 [View Source] Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:21:58 GMT
Update against Intel MLC 3.10 upstream.

pts/intel-mlc-1.0.0 [View Source] Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:27:00 GMT
Initial commit of Intel MLC.

Performance Metrics

Intel Memory Latency Checker 3.10

Test: Peak Injection Bandwidth - All Reads

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 171 public results since 17 December 2022 with the latest data as of 23 April 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

MB/s (Average)

6 x 32 GB DDR4-2934MT

94th

114362 ^{+/- 382}

2 x 32768 MB 5600MHz F5-5600J3636D32G

78th

84818 ^{+/- 448}

2 x 16 GB DDR5-6000MT

78th

81338 ^{+/- 11266}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 75855

4 x 32 GB DDR4-3000MT

74th

74968 ^{+/- 8}

8 x 2 GB LPDDR4-4267MT

65th

59678 ^{+/- 5158}

2 x 32 GB DDR5-5600MT

56th

42624 ^{+/- 202}

6 x 16 GB DDR4-2667MT

51st

40323 ^{+/- 1322}

Median

50th

40048

4 x GB LPDDR5-6400MT

45th

38046 ^{+/- 349}

4 x 16384 MB 2933MHz Kingston HX432C16FB4

42nd

37571 ^{+/- 217}

2 x 8 GB DDR4-3200MT

34th

31528 ^{+/- 15}

Low-Tier

25th

< 21329

1 x 8192 MB 2666MHz HMA81GS6DJR8N-VK

17th

17449 ^{+/- 1054}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Intel Memory Latency Checker 3.10 - Test: Peak Injection Bandwidth - All Reads) 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.

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.

CVTSI2SD DIVSD UCOMISD CVTTSD2SI CVTSS2SD SUBSD MOVAPD MOVDQA MOVNTDQ MULSD ADDSD CLFLUSH

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

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

Last automated analysis: 23 December 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libpthread.so.0, 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.

c5.large 1 System - 156 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.large 1 System - 141 Benchmark Results
c5.large 1 System - 134 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.large 1 System - 113 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.large 1 System - 150 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7a.large 1 System - 156 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9R14 - Amazon EC2 c7a.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.large 1 System - 135 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7a.large 1 System - 141 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9R14 - Amazon EC2 c7a.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.large 1 System - 128 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7a.large 1 System - 134 Benchmark Results
c7a.large 1 System - 113 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9R14 - Amazon EC2 c7a.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.large 1 System - 107 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.large 1 System - 102 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.large 1 System - 96 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.large 1 System - 95 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712

2022-12-22-0319 Featured Processor Comparison	2 x < Sec-V Krnl Protect > - Dell 06WXJT - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-135-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
intelalltests, amdalltests 3 Systems - 227 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK - 4 x 16384 MB 2933MHz Kingston HX432C16FB4 Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.963 - 526.98
Alienware-Win11 19 Systems - 364 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - Alienware 0TJXCY - 2 x 16384 MB 4800MHz HMCG78MEBSA095N Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.1928 - 536.40
amdalltests 2 Systems - 153 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK - 4 x 16384 MB 2933MHz Kingston HX432C16FB4 Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.963 - 526.98
amdalltests 2 Systems - 209 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK - 4 x 16384 MB 2933MHz Kingston HX432C16FB4 Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.963 - 526.98
semtravar 2 Systems - 122 Benchmark Results
openvkl updated Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
ddr55600 2 Systems - 220 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-13700KF - ASUS ROG STRIX B660-F GAMING WIFI - 2 x 32768 MB 5400MHz F5-5600J3636D32G Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.963 - 526.98
2023-01-16-2136 128 Systems - 1156 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 - Supermicro X9DR3-F v0123456789 - Intel Xeon E7 v2 Arch Linux - 6.1.6-arch1-1 - GCC 12.2.0
testt320txt Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 - Dell PowerEdge T320 [07C9XP] - Intel Xeon E7 v2 Debian GNU - 5.15.83-1-pve - 1.0.2
mlc openvkl rembrandt 3 Systems - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO 21CM0001US - AMD Device 14b5 Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.1.0-060100rc2daily20221028-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
intel mlc tigerlake 3 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1185G7 - Dell XPS 13 9310 [0DXP1F] - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.8-051808-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Alienware-Win11 20 Systems - 378 Benchmark Results
mlc threadripper 4 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.1.0-rc8-phx-mglru - GNOME Shell 43.0
openvkl mlc 3 Systems - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - HP 8A78 - AMD Renoir Pop 22.04 - 5.19.0-76051900-generic - GNOME Shell 42.3.1

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