NAS Parallel Benchmarks

NPB, NAS Parallel Benchmarks, is a benchmark developed by NASA for high-end computer systems. This test profile currently uses the MPI version of NPB. This test profile offers selecting the different NPB tests/problems and varying problem sizes.

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

Project Site

nas.nasa.gov

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

22 May 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

30 Seconds

Average Run Time

2 Minutes, 34 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Fortran + OpenMPI

Accolades

250k+ Downloads + 5k+ Public Benchmark Results

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 21 September 2021.

Revision History

pts/npb-1.4.4 [View Source] Sat, 22 May 2021 17:40:59 GMT
Add sp.c, adjust process count per https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/phoronix-test-suite/1257554-how-to-enable-verbose-output#post1257618

pts/npb-1.4.2 [View Source] Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:22:20 GMT
Build fix for GCC 10 gfortran/

pts/npb-1.4.1 [View Source] Sat, 07 Mar 2020 12:22:08 GMT
Add --alow-run-as-root, ended up being missed until now.

pts/npb-1.4.0 [View Source] Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:43:04 GMT
Update against upstream NPB 3.4, add new test cases.

pts/npb-1.3.1 [View Source] Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:37:52 GMT
Update against upstream NPB 3.1.1

pts/npb-1.3.0 [View Source] Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:39:01 GMT
Use physical core count rather than logical cores to avoid MPI breaking on high core count systems with SMT.

pts/npb-1.2.4 [View Source] Sat, 09 Sep 2017 10:30:50 GMT
ft.B not ft.C size

pts/npb-1.2.3 [View Source] Sat, 09 Sep 2017 10:15:47 GMT
Update MPI handling, add some larger test sizes

pts/npb-1.2.2 [View Source] Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:51:56 GMT
Update CFLAGS handling

pts/npb-1.2.1 [View Source] Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:42:33 GMT
MG.B and IS.D do not build / run properly on modern systems.

pts/npb-1.2.0 [View Source] Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:57:21 GMT
Working on new version of NPB test that makes use of some of the HPCC test profile MPI improvements and other multi-core/cluster work for better benchmarking. Seems to have MPI rank errors right now though for NPB on this build.

pts/npb-1.1.1 [View Source] Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:11:43 GMT
Remove tests not in MPI NPB version.

pts/npb-1.1.0 [View Source] Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:56:25 GMT
Switch to the MPI version of NPB benchmarks.

pts/npb-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:00:08 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

HPC - High Performance Computing

MPI Benchmarks

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4

Test / Class: LU.C

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,470 public results since 28 August 2019 with the latest data as of 25 September 2021.

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

Total Mop/s (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

100th

284846 ^{+/- 4149}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

99th

261099 ^{+/- 11362}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

99th

260240 ^{+/- 3900}

2 x AMD EPYC 7663 56-Core

99th

259263 ^{+/- 18957}

2 x AMD EPYC 7643 48-Core

99th

258284 ^{+/- 967}

2 x AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core

98th

247758 ^{+/- 3066}

2 x AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core

97th

236712 ^{+/- 9928}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

95th

213344 ^{+/- 28013}

2 x AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core

94th

190152 ^{+/- 189}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

93rd

184991 ^{+/- 7013}

2 x AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core

92nd

168948 ^{+/- 2185}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

91st

156756 ^{+/- 8251}

2 x AMD EPYC 7443 24-Core

91st

156246 ^{+/- 19023}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

89th

143387 ^{+/- 13551}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

88th

142654 ^{+/- 1471}

2 x AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core

87th

140659 ^{+/- 747}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

84th

136076 ^{+/- 8221}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

84th

134686 ^{+/- 954}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

84th

134150 ^{+/- 11287}

AMD EPYC 7643 48-Core

83rd

127851 ^{+/- 400}

2 x AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core

83rd

124355 ^{+/- 13115}

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

82nd

120226 ^{+/- 1192}

AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core

81st

109873 ^{+/- 760}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

79th

107063 ^{+/- 1376}

2 x AMD EPYC 7302 16-Core

79th

106715 ^{+/- 9868}

AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core

79th

105669 ^{+/- 9107}

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

78th

105397 ^{+/- 2078}

AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core

78th

104802 ^{+/- 1776}

AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core

77th

102859 ^{+/- 1716}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

77th

102776 ^{+/- 6863}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 99344

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

75th

98189 ^{+/- 317}

AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core

74th

95442 ^{+/- 663}

AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core

74th

94359 ^{+/- 12550}

AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core

73rd

86983 ^{+/- 544}

AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core

73rd

86919 ^{+/- 548}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

72nd

84031 ^{+/- 755}

AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

71st

82640 ^{+/- 3671}

AMD EPYC 7443 24-Core

71st

81928 ^{+/- 9466}

AMD EPYC 7453 28-Core

71st

80255 ^{+/- 10942}

AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core

71st

80153 ^{+/- 756}

AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core

70th

77999 ^{+/- 2883}

AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

70th

77998 ^{+/- 449}

AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core

69th

76178 ^{+/- 537}

AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core

68th

74995 ^{+/- 977}

Intel Xeon Gold 6258R

68th

74830 ^{+/- 639}

AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core

68th

74677 ^{+/- 948}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

68th

74550 ^{+/- 477}

AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

67th

74407 ^{+/- 1224}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

64th

67698 ^{+/- 533}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

61st

64923 ^{+/- 1319}

AMD EPYC 7302 16-Core

60th

61011 ^{+/- 137}

AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core

59th

60677 ^{+/- 1340}

2 x AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

59th

60666 ^{+/- 6509}

Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

58th

57018 ^{+/- 360}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

57th

56054 ^{+/- 4146}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

56th

52477 ^{+/- 4863}

Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core

56th

51870 ^{+/- 4779}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218R

56th

51483 ^{+/- 2758}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

56th

51104 ^{+/- 350}

AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

55th

49295 ^{+/- 1081}

Intel Core i9-7980XE

52nd

47047 ^{+/- 2741}

Intel Core i9-7960X

52nd

46125 ^{+/- 1044}

Median

50th

44873

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

50th

44545 ^{+/- 958}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

50th

44249 ^{+/- 3083}

AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core

49th

43422 ^{+/- 169}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

49th

43378 ^{+/- 297}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

47th

41278 ^{+/- 4916}

AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core

46th

38672 ^{+/- 687}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 0

45th

35402 ^{+/- 86}

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

43rd

33070 ^{+/- 2808}

AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core

43rd

32232 ^{+/- 293}

Intel Core i9-11900K

42nd

31092 ^{+/- 171}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

42nd

30091 ^{+/- 2625}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

42nd

29120 ^{+/- 2725}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

40th

27954 ^{+/- 429}

Intel Core i9-9900K

38th

27038 ^{+/- 393}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

37th

26569 ^{+/- 2494}

Intel Core i9-10900K

37th

26546 ^{+/- 551}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

37th

26493 ^{+/- 184}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

36th

26427 ^{+/- 201}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

35th

26045 ^{+/- 494}

Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3

34th

25722 ^{+/- 630}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

32nd

25378 ^{+/- 958}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

31st

24742 ^{+/- 400}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

31st

24515 ^{+/- 1511}

Intel Core i7-8086K

31st

24385 ^{+/- 429}

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

29th

23837 ^{+/- 65}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

29th

23641 ^{+/- 1186}

Intel Core i7-8700K

29th

23632 ^{+/- 384}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

28th

22816 ^{+/- 225}

Intel Core i5-10600K

28th

22743 ^{+/- 3269}

Intel Core i5-8400

27th

22338 ^{+/- 178}

Low-Tier

25th

< 21449

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

25th

21401 ^{+/- 1258}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core

25th

21065 ^{+/- 164}

Intel Core i7-10700T

24th

20993 ^{+/- 570}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core

24th

20899 ^{+/- 1436}

Intel Core i5-9400F

24th

20489 ^{+/- 1521}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

24th

20408 ^{+/- 2061}

Intel Core i7-7740K

24th

20293 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i9-10885H

23rd

20196 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Core i7-7700K

22nd

19575 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core

22nd

19312 ^{+/- 1594}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core

22nd

18724 ^{+/- 103}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

21st

18172 ^{+/- 1093}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

21st

18050 ^{+/- 1074}

AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

20th

17585 ^{+/- 157}

Intel Core i7-6800K

19th

17498 ^{+/- 77}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

19th

17331 ^{+/- 274}

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

19th

17312 ^{+/- 140}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

18th

16926 ^{+/- 753}

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

17th

16516 ^{+/- 89}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

17th

16424 ^{+/- 485}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

17th

16422 ^{+/- 488}

Intel Xeon Silver 4108

16th

16060 ^{+/- 521}

Intel Core i3-8100

16th

16045 ^{+/- 134}

Intel Core i3-10100

16th

15949 ^{+/- 1317}

Intel Xeon E-2278GEL

15th

15488 ^{+/- 114}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

14th

15186 ^{+/- 304}

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

14th

15141 ^{+/- 17}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

13th

15114 ^{+/- 289}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

12th

14685 ^{+/- 86}

Intel Core i7-5775C

11th

14164 ^{+/- 204}

Intel Core i5-6500

11th

14064 ^{+/- 172}

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

10th

13170 ^{+/- 67}

Intel Core i7-8550U

9th

12400 ^{+/- 224}

Intel Core i7-4790K

9th

12253 ^{+/- 1225}

Intel Core i5-4670

8th

11658 ^{+/- 736}

Intel Core i7-4960X

8th

11655 ^{+/- 836}

Intel Core i5-7600K

8th

11336 ^{+/- 153}

Intel Core i5-3470

7th

9739 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Pentium Gold G6400

6th

9510 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i5-2500K

6th

9481 ^{+/- 422}

Intel Core i7-2700K

6th

9314 ^{+/- 36}

Intel Celeron G5900

5th

8168 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i7-3770K

5th

7907 ^{+/- 243}

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

4th

7201 ^{+/- 219}

Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core

3rd

3789 ^{+/- 4}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: LU.C) has an average run-time of 4 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 0.1%.

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.

multicore-result 3 Systems - 74 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
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
multicore-result 3 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 96 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 95 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 55 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 54 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 53 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 51 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 49 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server

Xeon & EPYC Tests 16 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8259L - ASRockRack EP2C621D16-4LP - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-64-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
EPYC 7742 2P vs. 7601 2P vs. Xeon Platinum 8280 3 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core - Dell 02MJ3T - AMD 17h Ubuntu 19.04 - 5.3.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.32.1
AMD Threadripper 3960X vs. Intel Core i9 10980XE Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i9-10980XE - Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-23-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
OnLogic Helix 500 Linux benchmarks 2 Systems - 151 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10700T - Logic Supply RXM-181 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
Threadripper 3970X Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Windows WSL/WSL2 3 Systems - 173 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-37-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.2
7980XE Feb 2921 5 Systems - 89 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-7980XE - ASUS PRIME X299-A - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-36-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Core i5 10600K vs. Core i5 7600K vs. Core i5 4670 3 Systems - 301 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-10600K - ASUS PRIME Z490M-PLUS - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.3
Ryzen 7 4700U vs. Core i7 1065G7 Ubuntu Linux 2 Systems - 150 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Device 34ef Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
Pop OS 20.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Benchmarks 2 Systems - 269 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-29-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
10700T Friday 4 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10700T - Logic Supply RXM-181 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-38-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Amazon Graviton2 vs. AMD EPYC 7742 3 Systems - 143 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
Linux 5.12 Scheduler Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-sched - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
Ryzen 7 3700X Clear Linux Assembler JCC Comp 2 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Device 1480 Clear Linux OS 31470 - 5.3.8-854.native - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
3770K 2021 3 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-3770K - ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-58-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Intel Core i3 10100 vs. AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Benchmarks 2 Systems - 1708 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-rc6-amd-energy - GNOME Shell 3.36.2

NAS Parallel Benchmarks

Project Site

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

NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4

Test / Class: LU.C

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Recent Test Results

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