NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark namd.
OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 4,059 public results since 20 August 2020 with the latest data as of 4 December 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.
Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (NAMD 2.14 - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms) has an average run-time of 6 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%.
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.
Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.
This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, libpthread.so.0, libdl.so.2, libz.so.1, libc.so.6.
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.
1 System - 7 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-13600K - MSI MPG Z690 EDGE WIFI - 2 x 16384 MB 6600MHz Corsair CMK32GX5M2X6600C32 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2251 - 537.42 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Xeon W-2145 - LENOVO 1036 - 4 x 32768 MB 2666MHz Micron 36ASF4G72PZ-2G6D1 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.3693 - 452.56 |
2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results |
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8468V - Supermicro X13DEG-OAD v1.01 - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-87-generic - OpenCL 3.0 |
1 System - 39 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-13-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.7 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i3-3120M - TOSHIBA Portable PC - Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-37-generic - KDE Plasma 5.24.7 |
1 System - 2 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i3-3120M - TOSHIBA Portable PC - Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-37-generic - KDE Plasma 5.24.7 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i3-3120M - TOSHIBA Portable PC - Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-37-generic - KDE Plasma 5.24.7 |
8 Systems - 22 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-13900K - Gigabyte Z790 UD - Intel Device 7a27 AlmaLinux 9.2 - 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64 - GCC 11.3.1 20221121 |
7 Systems - 105 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores - HP 8B24 - AMD Device 14a4 CentOS Stream 9 - 5.14.0-386.el9.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.10 |
8 Systems - 22 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-14900K - Gigabyte Z790 UD - Intel Device 7a27 AlmaLinux 9.3 - 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605 |
6 Systems - 105 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores - HP 8B24 - AMD Device 14a4 CentOS Stream 9 - 5.14.0-386.el9.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.10 |
5 Systems - 105 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores - HP 8B24 - AMD Device 14a4 Arch Linux - 6.6.2-arch1-1 - GNOME Shell 45.1 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i5-1135G7 - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-37-generic - MATE 1.26.0 |
1 System - 3 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-1135G7 - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-37-generic - MATE 1.26.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i5-1135G7 - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-37-generic - MATE 1.26.0 |
3 Systems - 268 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-2520M - HP 161C - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.18.0-20-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.3 |
11 Systems - 217 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
4 Systems - 99 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.9.1-050901-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |
4 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.8.0-59-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9 |
3 Systems - 189 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-i v1.01 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc6daily20210408-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
3 Systems - 174 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Fedora 32 - 5.6.6-300.fc32.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.36.1 |
6 Systems - 143 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-36-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |
8 Systems - 439 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-11600K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - Intel Device 43ef Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3 |
3 Systems - 101 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-16-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4 |
Featured Kernel Comparison |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.10.2-051002-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |
8 Systems - 84 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon E-2288G - Compulab SBC-ATCFL v1.2 - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |
Featured OS Comparison |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - 2 x 8192 MB 3600MHz F4-3600C16-8GTRG Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22000 - 10.0 - 471.68 |
12 Systems - 229 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD 17h Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
26 Systems - 438 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-051100rc6daily20210201-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
4 Systems - 110 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0GG9PT - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-33-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |