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

Test Created

18 September 2020

Last Updated

27 July 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute

Average Run Time

20 Minutes, 48 Seconds

Test Dependencies

CMake + C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Vulkan

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 current as of 24 May 2022.

Revision History

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 20210720

Target: CPU - Model: resnet50

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 458 public results since 27 July 2021 with the latest data as of 9 May 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 EPYC 74F3 24-Core

99th

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

98th

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

97th

Intel Core i5-12400

95th

Intel Core i7-12700K

91st

18 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

89th

Intel Core i5-12600K

88th

19 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

85th

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

85th

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

81st

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

81st

Intel Core i9-9900KS

81st

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

80th

22 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

79th

Intel Core i9-10900K

78th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

77th

23 ^{+/- 1}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 24

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

70th

25 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

69th

25 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core

68th

25 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

66th

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

63rd

Intel Core i5-10600K

62nd

27 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

61st

Intel Core i7-8700K

59th

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

59th

29 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core

57th

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

57th

29 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

57th

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

56th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

54th

30 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-8400

52nd

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

52nd

31 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-7740K

51st

Median

50th

Intel Core i7-6800K

50th

Intel Core i7-10700T

49th

33 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

48th

34 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-9400F

47th

34 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

46th

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

44th

Intel Core i9-10980XE

41st

38 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

41st

39 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

40th

Intel Core i7-1185G7

40th

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

39th

40 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-5960X

38th

Intel Core i3-8100

38th

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

37th

Intel Core i3-10100

36th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

35th

41 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

33rd

Intel Core i7-1065G7

33rd

42 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5775C

32nd

Intel Core i5-6500

26th

Low-Tier

25th

> 46

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

25th

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

25th

46 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Celeron G6900

25th

Intel Core i7-8565U

23rd

Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5

22nd

Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

21st

51 ^{+/- 1}

20th

20th

18th

17th

16th

15th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

15th

59 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i7-2700K

11th

86 ^{+/- 7}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

9th

94 ^{+/- 8}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

8th

100 ^{+/- 5}

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

6th

119 ^{+/- 8}

Intel Core i7-3517U

4th

138 ^{+/- 1}

Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core

3rd

248 ^{+/- 4}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

2nd

288 ^{+/- 2}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (NCNN 20210720 - Target: CPU - Model: resnet50) has an average run-time of 10 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 0.6%.

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.

PUNPCKLQDQ MOVD PSHUFD PSHUFLW MOVDQU MOVDQA SUBSD MOVAPD MINSD MAXSD ADDSD CVTSI2SD DIVSD CVTSS2SD PADDQ PSUBQ SHUFPD MULSD CVTTSD2SI MULPD PSRLDQ CVTSD2SS SQRTSD PUNPCKHQDQ CVTDQ2PS CVTTPS2DQ COMISD PMULUDQ ANDPD UCOMISD MOVUPD MOVHPD UNPCKHPD ANDNPD CMPNLESD 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 VPERM2F128 VEXTRACTF128 VMASKMOVPS VBROADCASTSD 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).

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

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 VFMADD231PS VFNMADD231PS VFNMADD132PS VFMSUB231PS VFMSUB132PS VFMADD213PS VFMADD213SS VFMSUB213PS VFMSUB132SS VFMADD132SD VFNMADD213SS VFNMADD132SS VFNMADD231SS VFMADD132PD VFMADD231SD VFNMADD132SD VFMSUB231SD VFNMADD213SD VFNMADD213PS

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

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

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 18 January 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)

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

Loongson-3A5000LL

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1 Max, Apple M1 Pro

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

AArch64 rev 12, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core, Apple M1

rx480common_vkvCompute 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core - MSI MEG X570 ACE - AMD Starship Garuda Soaring - 5.17.9-zen1-1-zen - KDE Plasma 5.24.5
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Linux Benchmarks 4 Systems - 541 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.4-051704-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Linux Benchmarks 3 Systems - 541 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.4-051704-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Linux Benchmarks 3 Systems - 541 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.4-051704-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
AMD Ryzen 5800X, 5800X3D, 5950X Linux Benchmarks 3 Systems - 531 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.4-051704-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
5800X3D 1 System - 84 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.4-051704-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
ncnn-test 1 System - 16 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10900F - Alienware 0N43JM - Intel Comet Lake PCH Fedora 34 - 5.13.19-200.fc34.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.9
Raspberry Pi 400 vs. Apple M1 4 Systems - 116 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 400 Rev 1.0 - Broadcom BCM2711 Debian 11 - 5.10.92-v8+ - LXDE
contest 1 System - 35 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX B550-E GAMING - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.13.0-39-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
firstrun-vulkan-compute-funkotron 1 System - 35 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 - Dell 0NK5PH - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.13.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.7
Raspberry Pi 400 vs. Apple M1 5 Systems - 116 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - SolidRun CEX7 - 32GB Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.17.0-051700-generic - KDE Plasma 5.24.3
Raspberry Pi 400 vs. Apple M1 5 Systems - 116 Benchmark Results	ARMv7 Cortex-A72 - BCM2711 Raspberry Pi 400 Rev 1.0 - Broadcom BCM2711 Raspbian 11 - 5.10.92-v7l+ - LXDE
Apple M1 Asahi Linux Alpha 3 Systems - 268 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - 8GB Arch Linux ARM - 5.17.0-rc7-asahi-next-20220310-5-1-ARCH - KDE Plasma 5.24.3
machine-learning-1 1 System - 120 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-104-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Apple M1 2022 macOS 1 System - 192 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - 8GB macOS 12.3 - 21.4.0 - OpenCL 1.2

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X - Ubuntu 21.04 vs. Ubuntu 21.10 2 Systems - 115 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.13.0-14-generic - GNOME Shell 40.2
8700k september 4 Systems - 196 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING - Intel 8th Gen Core Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc6daily20200923-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
EPYC 72F3 September 2021 Featured Processor Comparison	AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-i v1.01 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.14.0-rc7-amd-pstate-phx - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
AMD EPYC 7003 EO 2021 Linux Comparison 3 Systems - 141 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core - ASRockRack ROME2D16-2T - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.13.0-20-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
AMD FX-8150 2021 4 Systems - 75 Benchmark Results	AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core - ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS - AMD RS780 + SB7x0 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-53-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2 Systems - 82 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-11900K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - Intel Device 43ef Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-25-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
HPC benchmark Featured Processor Comparison
7600k oktoberfest 4 Systems - 146 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-7600K - Gigabyte Z270M-D3H-CF - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20200928-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Windows 11 WSL Performance 2 Systems - 140 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.13.0-16-generic - GNOME Shell 40.2
3950X July 3 Systems - 89 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc6daily20200922-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
AMD EPYC 7003 EO 2021 Linux Comparison 2 Systems - 140 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core - ASRockRack ROME2D16-2T - AMD Starship Clear Linux OS 35150 - 5.14.13-1083.native - GNOME Shell 41.0
3900XT August 4 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-rc1-phx - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
tr 3970x july 4 Systems - 93 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core - MSI Creator TRX40 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc2daily20210307-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
AMD EPYC 7003 EO 2021 Linux Comparison 4 Systems - 141 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core - ASRockRack ROME2D16-2T - AMD Starship Clear Linux OS 35150 - 5.14.13-1083.native - GNOME Shell 41.0
CentOS Stream 8 Featured Processor Comparison	2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship CentOS Stream 8 - 4.18.0-348.2.1.el8_5.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.32.2

NCNN

Project Site

Test Created

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Average Run Time

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Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

NCNN 20210720

Target: CPU - Model: resnet50

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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