LeelaChessZero

LeelaChessZero (lc0 / lczero) is a chess engine automated vian neural networks. This test profile can be used for OpenCL, CUDA + cuDNN, and BLAS (CPU-based) benchmarking.

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

Project Site

lczero.org

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

12 January 2019

Last Updated

25 August 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 43 Seconds

Average Run Time

4 Minutes, 8 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Sub-Routine) + OpenCL + Meson Build System + Eigen + Zlib

Accolades

60k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

Public Result Uploads *Reported Installs **Reported Test Completions **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEventsLeelaChessZero Popularity Statisticspts/lczero2019.012019.032019.052019.072019.092019.112020.012020.032020.052020.072020.092020.112021.012021.032021.052021.072021.092021.112022.012022.032022.052022.072022.092022.112023.012023.032023.052023.072023.094K8K12K16K20K
* 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 27 September 2023.
Eigen44.4%BLAS44.0%OpenCL11.6%Backend Option PopularityOpenBenchmarking.org

Revision History

pts/lczero-1.6.0   [View Source]   Wed, 25 Aug 2021 14:55:01 GMT
Update against upstream LC0 v0.28 to workaround build issues on newer Linux distributions.

pts/lczero-1.5.1   [View Source]   Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:41:46 GMT
Limit max CPU threads to 64 to workaround upstream issue with lc0 bailing out otherwise.

pts/lczero-1.5.0   [View Source]   Sun, 06 Sep 2020 14:18:27 GMT
Update against latest upstream along with updated network, add eigen as possible external dependency.

pts/lczero-1.4.0   [View Source]   Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:06:47 GMT
Update against lc0 0.25, use new network as old one was removed.

pts/lczero-1.3.0   [View Source]   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:28:53 GMT
Update against latest lc0 v0.23.2 upstream, other test improvements.

pts/lczero-1.2.1   [View Source]   Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:07:11 GMT
Add Windows support.

pts/lczero-1.2.0   [View Source]   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:49:44 GMT
Update against lczero upstream

pts/lczero-1.1.1   [View Source]   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:41:40 GMT
Add zlib to external dependency list.

pts/lczero-1.1.0   [View Source]   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:11:47 GMT
Set threads option always for CPU testing.

pts/lczero-1.0.1   [View Source]   Sun, 13 Jan 2019 14:22:54 GMT
Allow CUDA and BLAS benchmarking back-end support.

pts/lczero-1.0.0   [View Source]   Sat, 12 Jan 2019 20:10:43 GMT
Initial commit of lc0 / lczero chess benchmark using neural networks with GPU compute.

Suites Using This Test

Chess Test Suite

Machine Learning

HPC - High Performance Computing

CPU Massive

NVIDIA GPU Compute


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

LeelaChessZero 0.28

Backend: Eigen

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 922 public results since 25 August 2021 with the latest data as of 8 September 2023.

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
Nodes Per Second (Average)
2 x AMD EPYC 9374F 32-Core
100th
7
13093 +/- 1821
AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core
100th
3
11179 +/- 1221
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H
100th
9
11066 +/- 1198
2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core
98th
12
9951 +/- 280
AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core
97th
9
9657 +/- 473
AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core
96th
9
9268 +/- 322
2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core
96th
20
9222 +/- 742
2 x AMD EPYC 7573X 32-Core
94th
6
8249 +/- 642
2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core
92nd
3
7427 +/- 187
2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core
91st
21
7013 +/- 306
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8362
90th
3
6643
2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core
87th
16
5269 +/- 790
AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core
87th
14
5193 +/- 94
2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
83rd
19
4357 +/- 462
Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
83rd
6
4283 +/- 365
2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core
82nd
10
4123 +/- 138
AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
81st
8
3906 +/- 158
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core
80th
9
3603 +/- 72
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
78th
6
3510 +/- 423
Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core
76th
4
2161 +/- 129
2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core
76th
8
2126 +/- 144
Mid-Tier
75th
< 2109
AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core
73rd
14
1956 +/- 186
AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core
71st
9
1908 +/- 62
Intel Core i9-13900K
71st
18
1887 +/- 219
Intel Core i5-13600K
71st
10
1881 +/- 46
AMD EPYC 7373X 16-Core
69th
8
1833 +/- 110
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core
68th
9
1820 +/- 30
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core
65th
6
1763 +/- 14
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
65th
25
1761 +/- 89
AMD EPYC 9374F 32-Core
64th
4
1743 +/- 54
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
63rd
13
1719 +/- 32
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core
60th
5
1629 +/- 22
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
59th
6
1608 +/- 61
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
57th
15
1570 +/- 25
Intel Core i5-13400
56th
4
1559 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core
55th
7
1546 +/- 7
AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core
54th
4
1535 +/- 69
Intel Core i5-12600K
54th
7
1529 +/- 168
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core
54th
9
1528 +/- 34
2 x AMD EPYC 7373X 16-Core
53rd
12
1513 +/- 89
Intel Core i5-12400
51st
9
1405 +/- 69
Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
51st
3
1402 +/- 22
Median
50th
1402
AMD EPYC 7573X 32-Core
47th
3
1299 +/- 106
AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core
47th
4
1294 +/- 55
Apple M1
46th
7
1267 +/- 14
AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core
46th
14
1261 +/- 40
AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core
45th
10
1246 +/- 90
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
43rd
3
1191 +/- 36
Intel Core i9-11900K
41st
13
1138 +/- 66
Intel Core i5-10600K
40th
3
1135 +/- 21
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
40th
4
1134 +/- 104
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core
40th
15
1130 +/- 30
Intel Core i9-10980XE
39th
4
1113 +/- 26
Intel Core i9-9900KS
39th
3
1111 +/- 12
Intel Core i5-8400
38th
7
1085 +/- 25
Intel Core i7-8700K
36th
4
1012 +/- 17
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
35th
9
972 +/- 58
Intel Core i7-8086K
34th
3
958 +/- 4
Intel Core i9-9900K
34th
3
956 +/- 26
Intel Core i7-6800K
34th
3
951 +/- 5
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
33rd
3
949
Intel Core i5-9400F
33rd
4
947 +/- 13
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
32nd
11
912 +/- 27
Intel Core i5-11600K
31st
5
907 +/- 90
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6
28th
3
843 +/- 9
Intel Core i9-10900K
27th
3
820 +/- 14
Intel Core i3-8100
26th
3
790 +/- 12
Intel Core i7-1165G7
26th
13
774 +/- 70
Low-Tier
25th
< 768
AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core
25th
4
767 +/- 62
Intel Core i7-5960X
25th
3
738 +/- 110
Intel Core i5-6500
24th
6
727 +/- 14
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
24th
6
726 +/- 74
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
23rd
3
711 +/- 20
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
23rd
28
706 +/- 93
Intel Core i7-10700T
22nd
3
691 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5
20th
4
684 +/- 7
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
20th
4
681 +/- 20
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core
20th
3
681 +/- 19
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
19th
4
662 +/- 10
Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5
17th
3
623 +/- 15
Intel Celeron G6900
17th
5
618 +/- 19
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
17th
11
610 +/- 41
Intel Core i3-10100
16th
4
600 +/- 9
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core
15th
4
590 +/- 20
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
15th
3
579 +/- 11
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core
13th
7
543 +/- 25
Intel Core i5-7600K
13th
4
535 +/- 7
Intel Core i7-4770K
12th
4
524 +/- 11
Intel Core i7-1065G7
11th
3
514 +/- 27
Intel Core i7-8550U
11th
6
504 +/- 51
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
11th
4
484 +/- 24
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core
10th
4
478 +/- 20
Intel Core i7-8565U
9th
3
445 +/- 28
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
8th
3
406 +/- 7
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
8th
3
406 +/- 24
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
6th
12
353 +/- 9
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6th
3
352 +/- 12
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
5th
4
291 +/- 23
Intel Core i7-2700K
5th
4
264 +/- 3
Intel Core i7-1185G7
4th
3
219 +/- 6
Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core
3rd
4
139 +/- 3
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
3rd
4
131 +/- 8
AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core
2nd
3
122 +/- 5
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core
2nd
4
19 +/- 1
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Backend: Eigen922 Results Range From 18 To 16982 Nodes Per Second18358698103813781718205823982738307834183758409844384778511854585798613864786818715874987838817885188858919895389878102181055810898112381157811918122581259812938132781361813958142981463814978153181565815998163381667817018306090120150

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (LeelaChessZero 0.28 - Backend: Eigen) has an average run-time of 25 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 BenchmarkBackend: EigenRun-Time1326395265Min: 17 / Avg: 24.43 / Max: 64

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.8%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsBackend: EigenDeviation246810Min: 0 / Avg: 0.77 / Max: 4

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does 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 BaseLeelaChessZero CPU Core ScalingBackend: Eigen4681012162432641282.735.468.1910.9213.65

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
SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
POPCNT
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 VEXTRACTF128 VINSERTF128 VPERM2F128 VPERMILPS
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).
 
VPBROADCASTQ VINSERTI128 VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTD VPSLLVQ VPBROADCASTW VPERMPS VPERM2I128 VPERMQ VPERMD
Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)
Used by default on supported hardware.
 
(ZMM REGISTER USE)
FMA (FMA)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VFMADD132SD VFMADD231SS VFMADD231SD VFMADD213SD VFNMADD132SD VFMADD132SS VFNMADD213SS VFMADD213SS VFNMSUB132SS VFMSUB132SS VFNMADD132SS VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD213SD VFMADD132PS VFMADD231PS VFNMADD231SS VFMADD213PS
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 17 January 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libopenblas.so.0, libOpenCL.so.1, libz.so.1, libm.so.6, libc.so.6, libgfortran.so.5, libquadmath.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)
ARMv8 64-bit
aarch64
ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core, Apple M1, Apple M2

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