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 15 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: BT.C

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,118 public results since 28 August 2019 with the latest data as of 20 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

256326 ^{+/- 2718}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

99th

241333 ^{+/- 4721}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

98th

235747 ^{+/- 5760}

2 x AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core

97th

204335 ^{+/- 2832}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

96th

194248 ^{+/- 2884}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

93rd

153163 ^{+/- 12884}

2 x AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core

93rd

143155 ^{+/- 2972}

2 x AMD EPYC 7453 28-Core

92nd

138341 ^{+/- 624}

2 x AMD EPYC 7443 24-Core

92nd

138314 ^{+/- 136}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

90th

135658 ^{+/- 561}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

90th

135251 ^{+/- 3412}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

89th

128929 ^{+/- 555}

AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core

88th

126767 ^{+/- 1206}

AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core

88th

125205 ^{+/- 976}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

86th

117230 ^{+/- 159}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL

86th

116742 ^{+/- 17159}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

85th

111859 ^{+/- 11773}

2 x AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core

85th

108709 ^{+/- 577}

AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core

83rd

96162 ^{+/- 14031}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

83rd

96135 ^{+/- 3953}

AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core

80th

84740 ^{+/- 11294}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

79th

82808 ^{+/- 2834}

AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

79th

78969 ^{+/- 1208}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

78th

77911 ^{+/- 763}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

77th

76079 ^{+/- 1194}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 74816

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

74th

72730 ^{+/- 1046}

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

74th

72484 ^{+/- 8054}

Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core

73rd

69475 ^{+/- 82}

2 x AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core

73rd

68583 ^{+/- 8082}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

70th

67941 ^{+/- 333}

AMD EPYC 7302 16-Core

69th

66106 ^{+/- 1049}

AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core

67th

60196 ^{+/- 1290}

AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core

66th

59182 ^{+/- 8275}

2 x AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

66th

58005 ^{+/- 8038}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

65th

55097 ^{+/- 2590}

2 x AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core

64th

54289 ^{+/- 5506}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

64th

53641 ^{+/- 3706}

Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

62nd

51018 ^{+/- 399}

AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

59th

45978 ^{+/- 4433}

Intel Core i9-7960X

57th

44401 ^{+/- 853}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

56th

43109 ^{+/- 6126}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

53rd

38254 ^{+/- 746}

Median

50th

29988

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

49th

27907 ^{+/- 2061}

Intel Core i9-10900K

48th

26303 ^{+/- 163}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

47th

25376 ^{+/- 1713}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core

44th

24456 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

43rd

24293 ^{+/- 588}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

42nd

23619 ^{+/- 1573}

Intel Core i9-11900K

41st

23457 ^{+/- 63}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

40th

22635 ^{+/- 212}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

39th

21279 ^{+/- 2628}

AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core

38th

20408 ^{+/- 193}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

38th

20085 ^{+/- 15}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

36th

19195 ^{+/- 74}

Intel Core i9-9900K

35th

19176 ^{+/- 260}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

35th

19110 ^{+/- 374}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

35th

19057 ^{+/- 172}

Intel Core i7-7740K

34th

18811 ^{+/- 62}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core

34th

18792 ^{+/- 57}

Intel Core i7-7700K

32nd

18556 ^{+/- 32}

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 6-Core

32nd

18415 ^{+/- 1490}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

32nd

18271 ^{+/- 579}

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

32nd

18259 ^{+/- 1285}

Intel Core i5-10600K

31st

18215 ^{+/- 2233}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core

31st

17893 ^{+/- 278}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

31st

17531 ^{+/- 1121}

Intel Core i5-9400F

29th

16537 ^{+/- 1116}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

29th

16356 ^{+/- 207}

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

27th

16123 ^{+/- 41}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

27th

16060 ^{+/- 864}

AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

27th

15967 ^{+/- 38}

Intel Core i3-10100

26th

15620 ^{+/- 1244}

Low-Tier

25th

< 15542

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

25th

15428 ^{+/- 103}

Intel Core i3-8100

25th

15320 ^{+/- 40}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

24th

15046 ^{+/- 255}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

23rd

14827 ^{+/- 661}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

22nd

14397 ^{+/- 475}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

21st

14195 ^{+/- 698}

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

21st

14144 ^{+/- 51}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

21st

14142 ^{+/- 168}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

19th

14058 ^{+/- 1152}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

18th

13516 ^{+/- 23}

Intel Core i5-6500

18th

13363 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i7-5775C

17th

13003 ^{+/- 156}

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

17th

12888 ^{+/- 112}

Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

16th

12672 ^{+/- 57}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

14th

11963 ^{+/- 592}

Intel Xeon E-2278GEL

14th

11872 ^{+/- 589}

Intel Core i5-4670

14th

11568 ^{+/- 533}

Intel Core i7-8550U

14th

11507 ^{+/- 151}

Intel Core i7-4790K

14th

11436 ^{+/- 1494}

Intel Core i5-7600K

13th

11066 ^{+/- 214}

Intel Core i7-4960X

12th

10313 ^{+/- 21}

Intel Xeon Silver 4108

11th

10260 ^{+/- 197}

Intel Core i5-3470

11th

9592 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i7-2700K

10th

9499 ^{+/- 40}

Intel Core i5-2500K

9th

8790 ^{+/- 290}

Intel Core i7-3770K

8th

7625 ^{+/- 177}

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

7th

6384 ^{+/- 91}

Intel Pentium Gold G6400

7th

4805 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Celeron G5900

6th

4108 ^{+/- 8}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 - Test / Class: BT.C) has an average run-time of 9 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%.

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.

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
gold sep 3 Systems - 192 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R - TYAN S7106 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc6-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 48 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 47 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 46 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
Windows 11 WSL Performance 2 Systems - 140 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - 8GB - 2 x 275GB Virtual Disk Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 - Wayland
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 45 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 44 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 43 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 39 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 38 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 34 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	2 x 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 Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 - GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 19.04 - 5.3.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.32.2
Core i9 10900K vs. Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
AMD Threadripper 3960X vs. Intel Core i9 10980XE Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core - MSI Creator TRX40 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-23-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
Threadripper 3970X Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Windows WSL/WSL2 3 Systems - 173 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - 52GB - 2 x 275GB Virtual Disk Ubuntu 20.04 - 4.19.104-microsoft-standard - X Server
Core i5 10600K vs. Core i5 7600K vs. Core i5 4670 3 Systems - 301 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-4670 - MSI B85M-P33 - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM 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	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Root Complex 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 Pop 20.04 - 5.4.0-7626-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
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 - 5.11.0-051100-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
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
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 31480 - 5.3.8-854.native - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
Intel Core i3 10100 vs. AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Benchmarks 2 Systems - 1708 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-10100 - ASUS PRIME Z490M-PLUS - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-rc6-amd-energy - GNOME Shell 3.36.2
Ubuntu 19.10 Intel Laptop Benchmarks 6 Systems - 76 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-5600U - LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW - Intel Broadwell-U-OPI Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-19-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
Intel Core i9 10980XE Linux Performance 11 Systems - 72 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 10 - 4.19.0-6-amd64 - GNOME Shell 3.30.2

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: BT.C

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Recent Test Results

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