Primesieve

Primesieve generates prime numbers using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. Primesieve primarily benchmarks the CPU's L1/L2 cache performance.

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

Project Site

primesieve.org

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

23 October 2012

Last Updated

20 July 2022

Test Maintainer

Kim Walisch

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

21 Seconds

Average Run Time

8 Minutes, 23 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + CMake

Accolades

200k+ 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 updated weekly as of 27 September 2023.

Revision History

pts/primesieve-1.9.0 [View Source] Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:19:25 GMT
Update against Primesieve 8.0 upstream.

pts/primesieve-1.8.0 [View Source] Sat, 04 Dec 2021 05:39:18 GMT
Update against Primesieve 7.7 upstream.

pts/primesieve-1.7.0 [View Source] Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:11:15 GMT
Update against Primesieve 7.4 upstream, https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/61

pts/primesieve-1.6.0 [View Source] Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:57:57 GMT
Update against upstream Primesieve, https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/43

pts/primesieve-1.5.0 [View Source] Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:51:39 GMT
Updated against Primesieve 7.1 from upstream, posted via GitHub tracker.

pts/primesieve-1.4.1 [View Source] Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:13:46 GMT
Update download links.

pts/primesieve-1.4.0 [View Source] Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:25:19 GMT
Upstream updates, switch from using OpenMP to C++11 threads.

pts/primesieve-1.3.1 [View Source] Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:52:52 GMT
Update against new Primesieve.

pts/primesieve-1.3.0 [View Source] Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:16:32 GMT
Updated test profile for new upstream Primesieve 5.4 by Kim Walisch.

pts/primesieve-1.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:46:52 GMT
Update Primesieve test profile against upstream v5.0 by Kim Walisch. Also add in SHA256 file sums and test against PTS5 Git.

pts/primesieve-1.1.1 [View Source] Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:59:40 GMT
Update download links file correctly.

pts/primesieve-1.1.0 [View Source] Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:56:17 GMT
Update against upstream Primesieve 4.2.

pts/primesieve-1.0.2 [View Source] Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:11:38 GMT
Improve some text string formatting.

pts/primesieve-1.0.1 [View Source] Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:58:14 GMT
Add SMP internal tag since Primesieve can use OpenMP.

pts/primesieve-1.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:55:00 GMT
Initial commit of the Primesieve test profile submitted by Kim Walisch.

Suites Using This Test

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Primesieve 8.0

Length: 1e12

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 576 public results since 20 July 2022 with the latest data as of 24 September 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.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

Seconds (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

100th

2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

96th

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

96th

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

94th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

93rd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

92nd

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

91st

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

90th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

89th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

86th

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

86th

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

83rd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

82nd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

81st

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

79th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 9

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

75th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

75th

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

74th

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

73rd

10 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

67th

Intel Core i9-10980XE

66th

Intel Core i9-13900K

65th

11 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

64th

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

63rd

12 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

62nd

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

61st

Intel Core i9-12900K

59th

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

57th

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

56th

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

55th

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

55th

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

53rd

Median

50th

Intel Core i5-13600K

49th

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

49th

17 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-10900K

48th

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

47th

Intel Core i9-11900K

45th

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

42nd

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

42nd

19 ^{+/- 1}

41st

37th

36th

34th

33rd

31st

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

31st

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

31st

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

29th

26 ^{+/- 2}

Apple M1

29th

Low-Tier

25th

> 29

Intel Core i5-12400

25th

29 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

25th

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

24th

30 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

22nd

31 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-8700K

21st

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

20th

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

18th

35 ^{+/- 2}

Apple M2

18th

36 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

16th

38 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-10700T

14th

42 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

13th

Intel Core i7-1165G7

12th

48 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

12th

49 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

12th

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

10th

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

10th

Intel Core i7-8565U

8th

69 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

8th

Intel Core i3-12100

7th

73 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

6th

79 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8550U

5th

104 ^{+/- 13}

Loongson-3A5000

5th

113

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

3rd

118 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

1st

836 ^{+/- 41}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Primesieve 8.0 - Length: 1e12) has an average run-time of 3 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.

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 MOVDQA MOVDQU MOVD CVTTSD2SI CVTSI2SD COMISD SUBSD DIVSD ANDPD MAXSD MOVAPD ADDSD MULSD UCOMISD SQRTSD PADDQ MINSD SHUFPD

SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

POPCNT

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 VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128

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).

VPBROADCASTQ VINSERTI128 VEXTRACTI128

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

FMA (FMA)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VFMADD231SD VFNMADD231SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 26 July 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, 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)

RISC-V 64-bit

riscv64

SiFive RISC-V

IBM POWER (PowerPC) 64-bit

ppc64

POWER6, PPC970MP

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

Loongson-3A5000

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1, Apple M1 Pro, Apple M2

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, Apple M1, Apple M2, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

7900_AI_OC 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 EndeavourOS rolling - 6.5.2-x64v4-xanmod1 - KDE Plasma 5.27.8
7900x_pbo_160_130_190_-20 2 Systems - 3 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 EndeavourOS rolling - 6.5.2-x64v4-xanmod1 - KDE Plasma 5.27.8
mbp16-2019-prime 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i9-9880H - Apple MacBook Pro - 2 x 16 GB DDR4-2667MHz macOS 13.5.2 - 22.6.0 - GCC 14.0.3 + Clang 14.0.3
1806117-FO-MERGE885941 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - FriendlyElec NanoPC-T6 - 16GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.10.160 - GNOME Shell 42.9
primes 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6338N - Dell PowerEdge R750 [0216NK] - Intel Ice Lake IEH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
primes 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core - Dell PowerEdge R7525 [0W2KKX] - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
primes 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6338N - Dell PowerEdge R750 [0216NK] - Intel Ice Lake IEH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
postpatch_cpumassive_esx_347 1 System - 90 Benchmark Results	16 x Intel Xeon Gold 6154 - Intel 440BX - 1 x 2048 MB 0MHz VMW-2048MB Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Build 20348 - 10.0.20348.1906 - 10.0.20348.1070
pre_patch_cpu_massive_o-2d-esx-348 1 System - 90 Benchmark Results	16 x Intel Xeon Gold 6154 - Intel 440BX - 1 x 2048 MB 0MHz VMW-2048MB Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Build 20348 - 10.0.20348.1906 - 10.0.20348.1070
amd-ryzen-5-7600 2 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core - ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 - AMD Device 14d8 ManjaroLinux 23.0.0 - 6.4.2-3-MANJARO - Xfce 4.18
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core - ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 - AMD Device 14d8 ManjaroLinux 23.0.0 - 6.4.2-3-MANJARO - Xfce 4.18
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core - ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 - AMD Device 14d8 ManjaroLinux 23.0.0 - 6.4.2-3-MANJARO - Xfce 4.18
Ryzen 5 7600 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core - ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 - AMD Device 14d8 ManjaroLinux 23.0.0 - 6.4.2-3-MANJARO - Xfce 4.18
Alienware-Win11 8 Systems - 33 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - Alienware 0TJXCY - 2 x 16384 MB 4800MHz HMCG78MEBSA095N Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.1928 - 536.40
Alienware-Win11 7 Systems - 29 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - Alienware 0TJXCY - 2 x 16384 MB 4800MHz HMCG78MEBSA095N Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.1928 - 536.40

AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
august 4 Systems - 134 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Windows vs. Ubuntu Linux - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 2 Systems - 89 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
75f3 2p august 2 Systems - 156 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core - ASRockRack ROME2D16-2T - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.19.0-rc2-phx-mglru-v12 - GNOME Shell 40.5
Apple M1 Mac Mini 2 Systems - 219 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Arch rolling - 5.18.16-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.25.4
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
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
AMD Ryzen 7600X 7700X series extra Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
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
Intel Core i9 13900K Linux CPU Benchmarks 16 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Apple M2 MacBook vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U On Linux 3 Systems - 190 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO 21CM0001US - AMD Device 14b5 Arch rolling - 5.18.16-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.25.4
xeon aug 2 Systems - 130 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 11 - 5.10.0-10-amd64 - X Server
Apple M1 Mac Mini vs. Core i7 2 Systems - 218 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Arch Linux - 5.18.16-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.25.4
Linux 6.0 AMD Rembrandt ThinkPad X13 Gen3 2 Systems - 121 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO 21CM0001US - AMD Device 14b5 Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-051900-generic - GNOME Shell 42.3.1
zen 1 epyc 2 Systems - 334 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core - Dell 02MJ3T - AMD 17h Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2

Primesieve

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

Primesieve 8.0

Length: 1e12

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results