Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library.
To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark smallpt.
OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 6,506 public results since 7 December 2018 with the latest data as of 16 August 2024.
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.
Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples) has an average run-time of 4 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 1%.
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 extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.
This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, libgomp.so.1, libc.so.6.
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.
7 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.5.20240730 - 6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605 |
3 Systems - 27 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 r7g.4xlarge - 128GB Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.28.1.el9_4.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
2 Systems - 5 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 r7g.4xlarge - 128GB Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.28.1.el9_4.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
14 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results |
AMD Custom APU 0405 - Valve Jupiter - AMD VanGogh Root Complex Gentoo 2.15 - 6.6.31-xanmod-rt31-xanmod1 - X Server 1.21.1.13 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-14700K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 DARK HERO - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-40-generic - NVIDIA |
1 System - 34 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon - Google Compute Engine n2-standard-8 - 2 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.24.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
1 System - 34 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8481C - Google Compute Engine c3-standard-8 - 2 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.28.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
1 System - 34 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 m6i.2xlarge - 1 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.16.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
1 System - 34 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M - Amazon EC2 m5.2xlarge - 1 x 32 GB DDR4-2666MT Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.16.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
1 System - 34 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 m7i.2xlarge - 1 x 32 GB DDR5-4800MT Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.16.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
1 System - 42 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.2xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.5.20240805 - 6.1.102-108.177.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605 |
1 System - 33 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon - Google Compute Engine n2-standard-8 - 2 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.24.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
1 System - 34 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 r7g.2xlarge - 62GB Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
13 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results |
Unknown - O.E.M Loongson-3A6000-HV-7A2000-1w-V0.1-EVB Loongson-3A6000-HV-7A2000-1w-EVB-V1.21 - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge AOSC OS 11.4.2 - 6.10.0-aosc-main - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
3 Systems - 67 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon - Google Compute Engine n2-standard-8 - 2 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.4 - 5.14.0-427.24.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
3 Systems - 268 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-2520M - HP 161C - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.18.0-20-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.3 |
7 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A53 - Libre Board ALL-H3-CC H5 - 2048MB Raspbian 9.6 - 4.18.0-rc3-gfc36def997cf-dirty - X Server 1.19.2 |
11 Systems - 217 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-10600K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
8 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A53 - Libre Board ALL-H3-CC H5 - 2048MB Raspbian 9.6 - 4.18.0-rc3-gfc36def997cf-dirty - X Server 1.19.2 |
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 |
2 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 400 Rev 1.0 - Broadcom BCM2711 Debian 11 - 5.10.92-v8+ - LXDE |
Featured Processor Comparison |
Intel Core i9-10980XE - Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-23-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1 |
4 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-10700T - Insyde CometLake TBD by OEM - Intel FreeBSD - 13.0-BETA1 - Clang 11.0.1 |
8 Systems - 439 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-11600K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - Intel Device 43ef Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3 |
2 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Device 1480 Clear Linux OS 31480 - 5.3.8-854.native - GNOME Shell 3.34.1 |
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 |
5 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2 - 4096MB Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-1022-raspi2 - GCC 9.2.1 20191008 |
8 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core - AMD [AMD] Family 17h - 32768MB DragonFly - 5.4-RELEASE - GCC 8.1 |
5 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-9400F - ASUS PRIME Z390-P - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-56-generic - Xfce 4.14 |
Featured Kernel Comparison |
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-rc4-max-boost-inv-patch - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |