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 3,300 public results since 20 August 2020 with the latest data as of 20 March 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 0.2%.
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 - 36 Benchmark Results |
2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core - GIGABYTE MZ73-LM0-000 v01000100 - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-67-generic - 1.3.224 |
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1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - TYAN S8251GM2NE-2T - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5 |
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1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - TYAN S8251GM2NE-2T - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5 |
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4 Systems - 31 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core - Gigabyte X670 AORUS ELITE AX - AMD Device 14d8 Pop 22.04 - 6.2.0-76060200-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5 |
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1 System - 67 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y - Supermicro X12SPA-TF v1.01 - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5 |
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2 Systems - 32 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - ASRock B550M Pro4 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Debian 11 - 5.10.0-21-amd64 - LXDE 0.10.1 |
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1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - TYAN S8251GM2NE-2T - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5 |
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3 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.2-060202-generic - GNOME Shell 43.2 |
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13 Systems - 228 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
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4 Systems - 137 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-i v1.02 - 8 x 64 GB DDR4-3200MT AlmaLinux 9.1 - 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.x86_64 - GCC 11.3.1 20220421 |
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3 Systems - 345 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 EndeavourOS rolling - 6.1.12-arch1-1 - Cinnamon 5.6.7 |
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3 Systems - 345 Benchmark Results |
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1 System - 31 Benchmark Results
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Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z590 AORUS MASTER - Intel Tiger Lake-H Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-67-generic - LXQt 0.17.0
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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 |
Intel Core i5-10600K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
4 Systems - 99 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0GG9PT - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.9.2-050902-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |
3 Systems - 174 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Fedora 32 - 5.8.11-200.fc32.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.36.6 |
8 Systems - 439 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3 |
6 Systems - 143 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-9750H - Dell 0VYV0G - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.10.13-xanmod1 - KDE Plasma 5.19.5 |
8 Systems - 84 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon E-2288G - Compulab SBC-ATCFL v1.2 - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2 |
4 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-22-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4 |
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 7542 32-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-051100rc6daily20210201-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
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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 |
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 - 101 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Clear Linux OS 34530 - 5.10.31-1033.native - GNOME Shell 3.38.4 |
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 |
3 Systems - 376 Benchmark Results |
2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core - Supermicro H11DSi-NT v2.00 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-051100rc4daily20210122-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |