NCNN

NCNN is a high performance neural network inference framework optimized for mobile and other platforms developed by Tencent.

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

Project Site

github.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

18 September 2020

Last Updated

13 August 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 16 Seconds

Average Run Time

20 Minutes, 48 Seconds

Test Dependencies

CMake + C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Vulkan

Accolades

20k+ 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 current as of 29 September 2022.

Revision History

pts/ncnn-1.4.0 [View Source] Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:59:41 GMT
Update against NCNN 20220729 upstream.

pts/ncnn-1.3.0 [View Source] Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:34:42 GMT
Update against NCNN 2021-07-20 upstream, fix possible Vulkan build issue by including glslang source tree.

pts/ncnn-1.2.0 [View Source] Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:11:33 GMT
Update against NCNN 20210525 release.

pts/ncnn-1.1.0 [View Source] Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:06:41 GMT
Update against new upstream NCNN 20201218.

pts/ncnn-1.0.3 [View Source] Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:36:39 GMT
Drop int8 tests per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/167

pts/ncnn-1.0.2 [View Source] Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:52:47 GMT
Expose Vulkan GPU support.

pts/ncnn-1.0.1 [View Source] Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:28:10 GMT
Increase the run count.

pts/ncnn-1.0.0 [View Source] Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:58:15 GMT
Initial commit of Tencent NCNN.

Suites Using This Test

Machine Learning

HPC - High Performance Computing

NVIDIA GPU Compute

Vulkan Compute

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

NCNN 20220729

Target: CPU - Model: mobilenet

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 180 public results since 13 August 2022 with the latest data as of 27 September 2022.

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

ms (Average)

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

98th

Intel Core i9-12900K

94th

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

92nd

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

90th

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

86th

Intel Core i5-12600K

81st

11 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

78th

11 ^{+/- 1}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 12

Intel Core i9-11900K

69th

Intel Core i5-12400

67th

Apple M2

67th

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

62nd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

60th

Intel Core i9-10900K

55th

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

52nd

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

51st

Median

50th

Intel Core i9-10980XE

48th

Apple M1

46th

Intel Core i7-5960X

41st

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

40th

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

40th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

38th

Intel Core i7-8700K

34th

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

33rd

Intel Core i7-1280P

33rd

16 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-12100

29th

17 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

26th

Low-Tier

25th

> 20

Intel Core i7-1185G7

25th

Intel Core i7-1165G7

25th

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

22nd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

21st

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

17th

Intel Core i7-1065G7

17th

22 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

16th

23 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

16th

23 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

15th

Intel Core i7-8565U

10th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

7th

33 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

7th

33 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

4th

36 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

3rd

44 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

1st

188

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (NCNN 20220729 - Target: CPU - Model: mobilenet) has an average run-time of 13 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 0.4%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not 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 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.

MOVD PSHUFD PSHUFLW MOVDQU MOVDQA PUNPCKLQDQ SUBSD MOVAPD MINSD MAXSD ADDSD CVTSI2SD DIVSD CVTSS2SD PADDQ PSUBQ SHUFPD MULSD CVTTSD2SI MULPD PSRLDQ CVTSD2SS SQRTSD CVTTPS2DQ CVTDQ2PS PUNPCKHQDQ PMULUDQ COMISD ANDPD UCOMISD MOVUPD MOVHPD UNPCKHPD CMPNLESD ANDNPD ORPD XORPD SUBPD

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 VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VPERM2F128 VPERMILPS VMASKMOVPS VBROADCASTSD

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).

VPBROADCASTD VPERMD VEXTRACTI128 VINSERTI128 VPERMQ VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTW VPBROADCASTQ VPBROADCASTB VGATHERDPS VPGATHERQQ VPSRLVQ VPBLENDD VPGATHERQD VPERMPD

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).

VFMADD132PS VFMADD132SS VFMADD231SS VFNMADD231PS VFMADD231PS VFMADD213PS VFNMADD132PS VFMSUB132PS VFNMADD231SS VFMADD213SS VFNMADD132SS VFMSUB231SS VFMSUB132SS VFMSUB213SS VFNMADD213SS VFMADD132PD VFMADD132SD VFNMSUB132SS VFNMSUB231SS VFMADD231SD VFNMADD132SD VFMSUB231SD VFNMADD213SD

AVX Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-VNNI)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: tigerlake, cascadelake).

VPDPWSSD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 13 August 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libgomp.so.1, libvulkan.so.1, libm.so.6, libmvec.so.1, 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.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, Apple M1, Apple M2

ryzen 7000 series extra 4 Systems - 361 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X AVX-512 2 Systems - 226 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
vfd 4 Systems - 282 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-11900K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - Intel Tiger Lake-H Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.19.0-rc2-mmio-stale-data-patched - GNOME Shell 40.5
12400 nnn 3 Systems - 172 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12400 - MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
ddss 3 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8565U - Dell 0KTW76 - Intel Cannon Point-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-rc6-phx-retbleed - GNOME Shell 42.2
5800x nn 3 Systems - 132 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.0-051800rc2daily20220411-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
dddA 3 Systems - 202 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.17.0-051700rc7daily20220309-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
3900xt-september 4 Systems - 211 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Rembrandt CPUFreq Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
12600k sept 3 Systems - 311 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc6daily20220716-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
3900X Seppy 3 Systems - 307 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-rc1-phx - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
sfsd 3 Systems - 240 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING - Intel 8th Gen Core Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-rc6-phx-retbleed - GNOME Shell 42.4
smoke run 1 System - 366 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.0.0-060000rc3daily20220904-generic - GNOME Shell
dd 3 Systems - 80 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core - MSI MEG X399 CREATION - AMD 17h Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc7-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2

AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
ncnn mnn 5900HX Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Arch rolling - 5.18.16-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.25.4
4500u db Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Pop 22.04 - 5.17.5-76051705-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
2990WX database server 3 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME - AMD 17h Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc7-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
xeon-db 4 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 11 - 5.10.0-10-amd64 - X Server
epyc-database 4 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Debian 11 - 5.10.0-10-amd64 - GNOME Shell 3.38.6
db 5960X 3 Systems - 78 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-5960X - Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-10-amd64 - 1.0.2
3900xt-september 4 Systems - 211 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
xeon august database 3 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 - ASUS P10S-M WS - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc8daily20201007-generic - X Server 1.20.8
august 3 Systems - 46 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - NB01 NL5xNU - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.8-051808-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
nn cxl x 3 Systems - 32 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc7-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
3900X Seppy 3 Systems - 307 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-rc1-phx - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
12400 nnn 3 Systems - 172 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12400 - MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
icelake nn 3 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Ice Lake-LP DRAM Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.8-051808-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
12600k sept 3 Systems - 311 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc6daily20220716-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1

NCNN

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

NCNN 20220729

Target: CPU - Model: mobilenet

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results