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

20 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 1 February 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 442 public results since 20 July 2022 with the latest data as of 29 January 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 7773X 64-Core

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

96th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

95th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

94th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

93rd

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

92nd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

91st

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

88th

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

88th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

84th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

83rd

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

82nd

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

79th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

79th

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

77th

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

77th

10 ^{+/- 1}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 11

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

69th

Intel Core i9-10980XE

68th

Intel Core i9-13900K

67th

11 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

66th

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

65th

12 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

64th

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

62nd

Intel Core i9-12900K

60th

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

57th

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

55th

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

55th

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

54th

Intel Core i5-13600K

51st

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

51st

Median

50th

Intel Core i9-10900K

49th

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

39th

38th

35th

34th

32nd

30th

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

30th

Apple M1

29th

Low-Tier

25th

> 29

Intel Core i5-12400

25th

29 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

25th

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

23rd

30 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

22nd

31 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-8700K

21st

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

20th

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

17th

35 ^{+/- 2}

Apple M2

17th

37 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

16th

38 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1280P

15th

39 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i7-10700T

13th

42 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

12th

Intel Core i7-1165G7

10th

48 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

10th

49 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

10th

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

9th

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

8th

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

6th

Intel Core i7-8565U

6th

69 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i3-12100

6th

73 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

5th

79 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8550U

4th

104 ^{+/- 13}

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

3rd

118 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

2nd

836 ^{+/- 41}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Primesieve 8.0 - Length: 1e12) has an average run-time of 2 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.

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

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

xeon-primesieve 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2 - HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Fedora Linux 37 - 6.1.7-200.fc37.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.1 20221121
bases system primesieve 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Celeron G1610T - HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Fedora Linux 37 - 6.1.7-200.fc37.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.1 20221121
pine64-primesieve 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	ARMv8 Cortex-A53 - sunxi - 2048MB openSUSE Tumbleweed 20221203 - 6.0.8-1-default - GCC 12.2.1 20221020 [revision 0aaef83351473e8f4eb774f8f999bbe87a4866d7]
visionfive2-primesieve 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	SiFive RISC-V - StarFive VisionFive V2 - 4096MB openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230126 - 5.15.89-01128-g9ad15ab44c3c - GCC 12.2.1 20221020 [revision 0aaef83351473e8f4eb774f8f999bbe87a4866d7]
5800x3d-optimize 4 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.1.7-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
5800x3d-optimize 3 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.1.7-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
pts-primes.results 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch Linux - 6.1.7-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
cwilgo-primesieve-5800x3d 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.1.7-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
cwilgo-primesieve-3900x 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - Gigabyte AX370-Gaming K7 - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.1.7-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
epyc genoa thread 4 Systems - 6 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.2.0-rc3-phx-tip-x86-cpu - GNOME Shell 43.1
2023-01-16-2136 128 Systems - 1156 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 - Supermicro X9DR3-F v0123456789 - Intel Xeon E7 v2 Arch Linux - 6.1.6-arch1-1 - GCC 12.2.0
2023-01-19-0039 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 - Supermicro X9DR3-F v0123456789 - Intel Xeon E7 v2 Arch Linux - 6.1.6-arch1-1 - GCC 12.2.0
Xeon Gold Cascade Lake Refresh LTS Linux Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	5.10.130-0510130-generic - 5.15.83-051583-generic - 6.1.0-phx
primesieve-aorus-i-x570-5900x 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Linuxmint 21 - 5.15.0-56-generic - Cinnamon 5.4.12
Cascade Lake EO 2022 2 Systems - 343 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 - GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-49-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4

AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Device 7aa7 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
Apple M1 Mac Mini 2 Systems - 219 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - 8GB Arch Linux ARM - 5.19.0-rc7-asahi-2-1-ARCH - KDE Plasma 5.25.4
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
Windows vs. Ubuntu Linux - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 2 Systems - 89 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - 2 x 16384 MB 3600MHz F4-3600C18-16GVK Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22000 - 10.0.22000.856 - 30.0.101.3267
Apple M1 Mac Mini vs. Core i7 2 Systems - 218 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - 8GB Arch Linux ARM - 5.19.0-rc7-asahi-2-1-ARCH - 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 - 5.19.0-051900daily20220809-generic - GNOME Shell 42.3.1
Apple M2 MacBook vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U On Linux 3 Systems - 190 Benchmark Results	Apple M2 - Apple MacBook Air - 8GB Arch rolling - 5.19.0-rc7-asahi-2-1-ARCH - KDE Plasma 5.25.4
AMD Ryzen 7600X 7700X series extra Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
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
new t tr 3 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc7-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
4800u july 3 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4800U - ASRock 4X4-4000 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-rc6-phx-retbleed - GNOME Shell 42.2
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
lappy M1 3 Systems - 211 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - 8GB Arch Linux ARM - 5.19.0-rc7-asahi-2-1-ARCH - KDE Plasma 5.25.4
db 5960X 3 Systems - 78 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-5960X - Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-10-amd64 - 1.0.2

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