Primesieve

Primesieve generates prime numbers using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. Primesieve 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

Test Created

23 October 2012

Last Updated

18 February 2019

Test Maintainer

Kim Walisch

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

15 Seconds

Average Run Time

8 Minutes, 23 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + CMake

Accolades

150k+ 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 19 June 2021.

Revision History

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 7.4

1e12 Prime Number Generation

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,108 public results since 18 February 2019 with the latest data as of 20 June 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

Seconds (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

100th

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

99th

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

99th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

97th

2 x AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

96th

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

95th

2 x AMD EPYC 7443 24-Core

95th

2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

95th

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

93rd

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

91st

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

90th

2 x AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core

88th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

87th

2 x AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core

87th

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6254

85th

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

85th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

83rd

8 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

81st

8 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

76th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 12

Intel Core i9-7980XE

75th

12 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

75th

Intel Core i9-7960X

70th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

69th

14 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon W-2295

68th

2 x AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

68th

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

66th

Intel Core i9-10900K

61st

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3

60th

Intel Core i9-11900K

59th

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

57th

Intel Core i7-7900X

56th

20 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

55th

Intel Core i9-9900K

52nd

25 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

51st

Median

50th

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

50th

25 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-11600K

50th

25 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

49th

26 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

49th

26 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

49th

26 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon W-1270

49th

26 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

47th

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core

45th

30 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i5-10600K

45th

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core

44th

32 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8700K

44th

32 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

44th

33 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

42nd

37 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

42nd

Intel Core i7-8700B

40th

38 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-8400

40th

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core

39th

40 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3

39th

42 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

38th

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

37th

44 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

36th

44 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-7700K

34th

47 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

33rd

52 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-4960X

32nd

54 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-3960X

32nd

55 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i5-7600K

32nd

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

31st

56 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

30th

59 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i3-8100

29th

Intel Core i7 990X

29th

61 ^{+/- 5}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core

28th

65 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i7-6700HQ

28th

Intel Core i5-4670

27th

Intel Core i5-6500

27th

Low-Tier

25th

> 70

Intel Core i7-6820HQ

24th

77 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-4790

23rd

Intel Core i7-4770K

23rd

80 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i7-5775C

22nd

84 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-3770K

22nd

Intel Core i7-8550U

20th

88 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-2700K

20th

91 ^{+/- 8}

POWER9 4-Core

19th

98 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-4700HQ

18th

105 ^{+/- 4}

ARMv8 Cortex-A77 6-Core

18th

108 ^{+/- 14}

AMD Athlon 3000G

17th

110 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

15th

164 ^{+/- 24}

Intel Core i3-2120

14th

184 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i3-4130

14th

186 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7 720Q

11th

198 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i5-2520M

11th

204 ^{+/- 18}

Intel Core i7-5600U

9th

212 ^{+/- 24}

ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-Core

9th

216 ^{+/- 28}

Intel Core i5-5300U

9th

216 ^{+/- 21}

AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core

9th

217 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i3-3110M

6th

259 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core 2 Duo P7350

4th

377 ^{+/- 43}

Intel Celeron N3050

4th

451 ^{+/- 7}

ARMv8 rev 1 4-Core

3rd

475 ^{+/- 23}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

3rd

500 ^{+/- 55}

ARMv7 Cortex-A15 8-Core

3rd

507 ^{+/- 25}

ARMv7 rev 4 4-Core

2nd

860 ^{+/- 82}

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core

1st

1278 ^{+/- 26}

ARMv7 rev 5 4-Core

1st

1618 ^{+/- 13}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Primesieve 7.4 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation) has an average run-time of 5 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 0.3%.

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.

MOVDQA MOVDQU PUNPCKLQDQ CVTSI2SD MULSD ADDSD MOVD CVTTSD2SI COMISD SUBSD DIVSD ANDPD MAXSD MOVAPD UCOMISD SQRTSD PADDQ MINSD ANDNPD CMPNLESD ORPD PSUBQ PSRLDQ

SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: sandybridge, skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

POPCNT

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

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

VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VINSERTI128 VPBROADCASTQ

FMA (FMA)

VFMADD231SD VFNMADD231SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 10 May 2021

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libpthread.so.0, libm.so.6, libc.so.6.

server-cpus-june-2021 1 System - 372 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - X Server 1.20.11
single 12 Systems - 214 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
multicore-40c-dedicated 1 System - 240 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon - OpenStack Foundation Nova v21.0.0 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-74-generic - GCC 9.3.0
multicore-40c-shared 1 System - 241 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon - OpenStack Foundation Nova v21.0.0 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-74-generic - GCC 9.3.0
server-cpus-june-2021 1 System - 369 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - X Server 1.20.11
single 4 Systems - 214 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
server-cpus-june-2021 3 Systems - 214 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
Lenovo rebuild world part 4 10 Systems - 16 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-3110M - LENOVO - Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM EndeavourOS rolling - 5.12.3-arch1-1 - MATE 1.24.1
Server CPUs June 2021 1 System - 485 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
Server CPUs June 2021 1 System - 206 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux Performance 11 Systems - 454 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3
Lenovo rebuild world part 4 9 Systems - 16 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-3110M - LENOVO - Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM EndeavourOS rolling - 5.12.3-arch1-1 - MATE 1.24.1

Apple M1 vs. AMD Renoir vs. Intel Tiger Lake 4 Systems - 99 Benchmark Results	Apple - Apple Mac mini - 8GB macOS 11.0 - 20.1.0 - OpenCL 1.2
Core i9 10900K vs. Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
Core i9-10980XE vs. Threadripper 3 8 Systems - 360 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.4.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ryzen 9 3900X 2 Systems - 66 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - 2 x 8192 MB 3600MHz F4-3600C16-8GTRG Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 18362 - 10.0 - 22.19.162.4
Clear Linux vs. Manjaro Linux Performance Benchmarks - Summer 2019 2 Systems - 123 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING - Intel 8th Gen Core Clear Linux OS 29920 - 5.1.9-781.native - GNOME Shell 3.32.2
Ubuntu 18.04 EC2 AMD New Instances 6 Systems - 39 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7571 - Amazon EC2 m5ad.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.15.0-1032-aws - GCC 7.3.0
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
Ryzen 9 3900X Linux SMT Performance Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Device 1480 Ubuntu 18.04 - 5.3.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.4
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux Benchmarks 1 System - 248 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Device 1480 Ubuntu 18.04 - 5.2.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.3
intel-core-i5-6200u-280ghz 5 Systems - 1840 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6200U - HP 8079 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.18.0-21-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.4
Core i9 10900K - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 20.10 2 Systems - 403 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-22-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.0
intel-core-i5-6200u-280ghz 5 Systems - 1839 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6200U - HP 8079 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.18.0-21-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.4

Primesieve

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

Primesieve 7.4

1e12 Prime Number Generation

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results