IPC_benchmark

IPC_benchmark is a Linux inter-process communication benchmark.

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

Project Site

github.com

Test Created

28 February 2020

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

3 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 30 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

10k+ 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 30 January 2025.

Revision History

pts/ipc-benchmark-1.0.0 [View Source] Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:51:48 GMT
Add IPC_benchmark.

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Performance Metrics

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IPC_benchmark

Type: Unnamed Pipe - Message Bytes: 128

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 651 public results since 28 February 2020 with the latest data as of 30 January 2025.

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

Messages Per Second (Average)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

100th

5589894 ^{+/- 529341}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

99th

5206837 ^{+/- 549909}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

98th

4951442 ^{+/- 261349}

Intel Core i7-10875H

94th

4079041 ^{+/- 132362}

AMD EPYC 7702P 64-Core

93rd

3971610 ^{+/- 32168}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

92nd

3888010 ^{+/- 535535}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

91st

3635171 ^{+/- 72000}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

89th

3439967 ^{+/- 86193}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

88th

3387223 ^{+/- 58084}

AMD EPYC 7313 16-Core

83rd

2912186 ^{+/- 25745}

AMD Phenom II X4 965

83rd

2908472 ^{+/- 145292}

Loongson-3A6000

80th

2750438 ^{+/- 25162}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 2544698

Intel Xeon W-2295

68th

2320160 ^{+/- 81888}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

68th

2286044 ^{+/- 65872}

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

65th

2215278 ^{+/- 132408}

Loongson-3A5000

65th

2205560 ^{+/- 153682}

Loongson-3A5000LL

63rd

2136438 ^{+/- 75396}

AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core

57th

1887836 ^{+/- 258238}

AMD EPYC 3255 8-Core Temp

56th

1840474 ^{+/- 112653}

ZHAOXIN KaiXian KX-6640MA

55th

1827892 ^{+/- 9811}

ARMv8 Cortex-A73 4-Core

55th

1820405 ^{+/- 4415}

Median

50th

1650500

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

46th

1497786 ^{+/- 175275}

Intel Core i7-6820HQ

43rd

1405375 ^{+/- 31055}

Intel Core i3-2120

43rd

1402586 ^{+/- 22031}

ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-Core

40th

1322953 ^{+/- 43375}

Intel Core i5-6500

37th

1223419 ^{+/- 56583}

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core

35th

1192406 ^{+/- 167862}

Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

34th

1168700 ^{+/- 167241}

Intel Core i3-8100T

32nd

1125411 ^{+/- 29112}

ARMv8 Cortex-A57 6-Core

32nd

1125378 ^{+/- 43261}

Intel Core i3 350M

29th

1067995 ^{+/- 29130}

Low-Tier

25th

< 999301

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core

21st

860842 ^{+/- 93393}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6226

19th

774528 ^{+/- 42921}

Intel Atom N2600

15th

671866 ^{+/- 20057}

ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core

10th

583774 ^{+/- 12982}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (IPC_benchmark - Type: Unnamed Pipe - Message Bytes: 128) 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 3.3%.

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)

IBM Z

s390x

(Many Processors)

RISC-V 64-bit

riscv64

SiFive RISC-V, Spacemit X60, rv64imafdch_zicntr_zicsr_zifencei_zihpm_zba_zbb_sscofpmf, rv64imafdcvsu

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

Loongson-3A5000, Loongson-3A5000LL, Loongson-3A6000, Loongson-3C5000, Loongson_3C5000

Itanium 64-bit

ia64

2 x Madison up 9M cache

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 3 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 8-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 8-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 8-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 48-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core, CIX P1 CD8180, Phytium D2000, Rockchip ARMv8 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

ituietst308-ol810-20250102-uek6-2025Jan20 1 System - 286 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.10 - 5.4.17-2136.338.4.2.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst308-ol88-uek6-20250102-2025Jan17 1 System - 340 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.8 - 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst308-ol88-20250102-2025Jan16 1 System - 277 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.8 - 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst308-ol88-uek6-20230712-2025Jan08 1 System - 285 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.8 - 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst310-ol95uek-20250102-2025Jan08 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
ituietst310-ol95uek-20250102-2025Jan08 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results
ituietst310-ol94-20241003-2025Jan07 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.4 - 5.15.0-300.163.18.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218
ituietst310-ol94-20241003-2025Jan07 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results
ituietst308-ol810-uek6-20250102-2025Jan05 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.10 - 5.4.17-2136.338.4.2.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst310-ol95-uek-20250102-2025Jan05 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
ituietst321-ol95uek-20250102-2025Jan04 1 System - 356 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Cisco UCSB-B200-M5 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
ituietst324-ol810-20250102-2025Jan04 1 System - 351 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Cisco UCSB-B200-M5 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers OracleServer 8.10 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst309-ol810-20250102-2025Jan3 1 System - 341 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.10 - 4.18.0-553.33.1.el8_10.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst312-ol95-20250102-2025Jan3 1 System - 348 Benchmark Results	8 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
12 x Intel Xeon 6730P Performance 1 System - 5 Benchmark Results	12 x Intel Xeon 6730P - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 82G33 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-51-generic - GCC 13.3.0

CPU comparison 5 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 6-Core - Gigabyte B450M DS3H-CF - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-56-generic - Xfce 4.14
Ryzen 9 5900X LInux 5.11 Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.10.0-051000daily20201222-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
i5 11600k 4 Systems - 179 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - ASRock X570 Taichi - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.13-051013-lowlatency - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Big Threadripper 2 Systems - 475 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
Tiger Lake Linux 5.11 Kernel Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0GG9PT - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.10.2-051002-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
worldzhang 8 Systems - 34 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7571 - Amazon EC2 t3a.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 4.14.203-156.332.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
5900x processor suite 2 Systems - 154 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-53-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
i5 11600k 3 Systems - 179 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - ASRock X570 Taichi - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.13-051013-lowlatency - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Kernel LLVM 6 Systems - 146 Benchmark Results	AMD Phenom II X4 965 - MSI 890FXA-GD70 - AMD RD890 PCI-e GFX Hydra part ManjaroLinux 21.0.4 - 5.12.4-156-tkg-pds - KDE Plasma 5.21.4
CPU comparison 3 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 12-Core - ASRock X399M Taichi - AMD 17h Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-56-generic - Xfce 4.14
Core i9 10980XE Kernel Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.5.0-050500-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
worldzhang 7 Systems - 37 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8255C - Tencent Cloud CVM v3.0 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC CentOS Linux 8 - 4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64 - GCC 8.3.1 20191121
cstate 2 Systems - 1766 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6500 - MSI Z170-A PRO - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 ManjaroLinux 20.0.3 - 5.4.52-1-MANJARO - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
i5 11600k 3 Systems - 179 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - ASRock X570 Taichi - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.13-051013-lowlatency - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
worldzhang 13 Systems - 38 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7571 - Amazon EC2 m5a.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 4.14.203-156.332.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712

IPC_benchmark

Project Site

Test Created

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

IPC_benchmark

Type: Unnamed Pipe - Message Bytes: 128

Tested CPU Architectures

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