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

* 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.
Data current as of Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:45:33 GMT.

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 954 public results since 18 February 2019 with the latest data as of 6 March 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

# Matching Public Results

Seconds (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

100th

2 x AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

97th

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

96th

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

93rd

2 x AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core

91st

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

89th

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6254

88th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

86th

8 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

85th

8 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

80th

Intel Core i9-7980XE

79th

12 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

79th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 13

Intel Core i9-7960X

74th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

73rd

14 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon W-2295

72nd

2 x AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

72nd

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

69th

Intel Core i9-10900K

64th

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3

63rd

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

61st

Intel Core i7-7900X

60th

20 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

60th

Intel Core i9-9900KS

55th

Intel Core i9-9900K

55th

25 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

55th

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

54th

25 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

53rd

26 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

53rd

26 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon W-1270

52nd

26 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

51st

Median

50th

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core

49th

30 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core

48th

32 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8700K

48th

32 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

48th

33 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

46th

37 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

46th

Intel Core i7-8700B

44th

38 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-8400

43rd

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core

42nd

40 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3

42nd

42 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

40th

44 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

40th

44 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-7700K

37th

47 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

35th

52 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-4960X

35th

54 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-3960X

34th

55 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i5-7600K

34th

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

33rd

56 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

32nd

59 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i3-8100

31st

Intel Core i7 990X

31st

61 ^{+/- 5}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core

30th

65 ^{+/- 6}

30th

28th

28th

26th

77 ^{+/- 10}

Low-Tier

25th

> 78

Intel Core i7-4790

25th

Intel Core i7-4770K

24th

80 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i7-3770K

23rd

Intel Core i7-5775C

23rd

84 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-8550U

21st

88 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-2700K

21st

91 ^{+/- 8}

POWER9 4-Core

20th

98 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-4700HQ

19th

105 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Athlon 3000G

18th

109 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

16th

164 ^{+/- 24}

Intel Core i3-2120

14th

184 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i3-4130

14th

186 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7 720Q

12th

198 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i5-2520M

11th

204 ^{+/- 18}

Intel Core i7-5600U

9th

212 ^{+/- 24}

Intel Core i5-5300U

9th

216 ^{+/- 21}

ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-Core

9th

216 ^{+/- 28}

AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core

8th

217 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core 2 Duo P7350

4th

389 ^{+/- 38}

Intel Celeron N3050

4th

451 ^{+/- 7}

ARMv8 rev 1 4-Core

3rd

475 ^{+/- 23}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

3rd

500 ^{+/- 55}

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.

PUNPCKLQDQ MOVDQU MOVDQA 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, sapphirerapids, alderlake, 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, sapphirerapids, alderlake, 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, sapphirerapids, alderlake, 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: 31 January 2021

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

V3NC_primesieve 2 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4214 - Quanta V3NC - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.16.18-041618-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.4
bench-pts-multicore-20210216 1 System - 2393 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G - ASRock A520M-ITX/ac - AMD Renoir Root Complex Gentoo - 5.10.16 - amd
HP Zbook Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows 3 Systems - 94 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10885H - HP 8736 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-43-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
bench-pts-multicore-20210214 1 System - 2388 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G - ASRock A520M-ITX/ac - AMD Renoir Root Complex Gentoo - 5.10.16 - amd
HP Zbook Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2 Systems - 95 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10885H - HP 8736 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.6.0-1047-oem - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Raptor Blackbird Initial Ubuntu 19.04 Benchmarks 5 Systems - 134 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 - Intel DQ77MK - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-53-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Raptor Blackbird Initial Ubuntu 19.04 Benchmarks 4 Systems - 134 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 - Intel DQ77MK - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-53-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
HP Zbook Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1 System - 131 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10885H - HP 8736 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.6.0-1047-oem - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
bench-pts-multicore-20210212 1 System - 2326 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G - ASRock A520M-ITX/ac - AMD Renoir Root Complex Gentoo - 5.10.15 - GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 11.0.0 + LLVM 11.0.0
3700x_multicore 1 System - 158 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - MSI A520M-A PRO - AMD Starship Fedora 33 - 5.10.14-200.fc33.x86_64 - Clang 11.0.0
FreeBSD 12.2 vs. FreeBSD 13 BETA AMD EPYC Benchmarks 2 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core - Supermicro Super Server 0123456789 - AMD [AMD] Starship FreeBSD - 12.2-RELEASE - Clang 10.0.1
FreeBSD 12.2 vs. FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks 5 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10700T - Insyde CometLake TBD by OEM - Intel FreeBSD - 13.0-BETA1 - Clang 11.0.1

Apple M1 vs. AMD Renoir vs. Intel Tiger Lake 4 Systems - 99 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.9.1-050901-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Core i9 10900K vs. Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-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 Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.4.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
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
Ubuntu 18.04 EC2 AMD New Instances 6 Systems - 39 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7571 - Amazon EC2 m5a.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.15.0-1032-aws - GCC 7.3.0
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
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
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
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Linux Benchmarks 1 System - 263 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Device 1480 Ubuntu 18.04 - 5.2.0-999-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
Amazon Graviton2 vs. AMD EPYC 7742 3 Systems - 143 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 m6g.metal v1.0 - 252GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-1009-aws - GCC 9.3.0

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