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

22 Seconds

Average Run Time

8 Minutes, 23 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + CMake

Accolades

200k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

Public Result Uploads *Reported Installs **Reported Test Completions **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEventsPrimesieve Popularity Statisticspts/primesieve2012.102013.022013.062013.102014.022014.062014.102015.022015.062015.102016.022016.062016.102017.022017.062017.102018.022018.062018.102019.022019.062019.102020.022020.062020.102021.022021.062021.102022.022022.062022.102023.022023.062023.1011K22K33K44K55K
* 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 3 December 2023.
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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 623 public results since 20 July 2022 with the latest data as of 26 November 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
6
1
2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core
99th
3
1
2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core
99th
5
1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores
96th
3
2
2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core
95th
11
2
2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core
94th
5
2
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core
93rd
6
3
2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core
92nd
4
3
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
91st
4
4
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
90th
5
4
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
89th
4
5
2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core
88th
4
5
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
87th
4
5
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores
84th
5
6
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
84th
21
6
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core
82nd
5
7
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
81st
6
7
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core
79th
6
7
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
77th
22
8
Mid-Tier
75th
> 9
AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core
74th
3
9
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core
74th
5
9
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core
73rd
5
10
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
72nd
26
10 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core
66th
11
11
Intel Core i9-10980XE
66th
4
11
Intel Core i9-13900K
64th
18
11 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
64th
10
12
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core
62nd
4
12 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core
62nd
6
13
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core
61st
7
13
Intel Core i9-12900K
59th
12
13
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
57th
4
14
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core
56th
3
14
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
55th
8
14
Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
55th
3
14
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core
53rd
6
16
Median
50th
17
Intel Core i5-13600K
49th
11
17
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core
49th
10
17 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-10900K
48th
3
17
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
47th
7
17
Intel Core i9-11900K
45th
6
18
Intel Xeon Silver 4216
43rd
4
18
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core
42nd
18
19 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
41st
11
19
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
38th
8
20
AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core
37th
7
20
Intel Core i5-12600K
35th
7
20
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
34th
4
21
Intel Core i5-13400
33rd
4
23
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
33rd
3
23
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
32nd
3
25
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
31st
7
26 +/- 2
Apple M1
30th
11
27
Intel Core i5-12400
26th
4
29 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 4800U
26th
3
29
Low-Tier
25th
> 30
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
25th
21
30 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
23rd
4
31 +/- 4
Intel Core i7-8700K
22nd
3
31
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
21st
3
32
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
19th
3
35 +/- 2
Apple M2
19th
14
36 +/- 5
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
17th
6
38 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-10700T
15th
3
42 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-5960X
14th
3
46
Intel Core i7-1165G7
13th
3
48 +/- 3
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6
12th
3
50
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
11th
3
53
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5
11th
3
55
Intel Core i7-8565U
8th
3
69 +/- 5
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
8th
4
69
Intel Core i3-12100
8th
4
73 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-1065G7
7th
3
79 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-8550U
5th
4
104 +/- 13
Loongson-3A5000
5th
6
113
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
4th
4
118 +/- 2
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core
1st
4
836 +/- 41
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Length: 1e12623 Results Range From 1 To 2984 Seconds1611211812413013614214815416016617217818419019611021108111411201126113211381144115011561162116811741180118611921198120412101216122212281234124012461252125812641270127612821288129413001120240360480600

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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkLength: 1e12Run-Time1122334455Min: 1 / Avg: 2.54 / Max: 56

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.3%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsLength: 1e12Deviation246810Min: 0 / Avg: 0.28 / Max: 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.

IntelAMDOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To BasePrimesieve CPU Core ScalingLength: 1e124681012162432641283691215

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, Loongson-3A6000
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, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, Apple M1, Apple M2, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

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