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 6,184 public results since 7 December 2018 with the latest data as of 28 March 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.
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i5-1135G7 - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - Intel Device a0ef Zorin 16 - 5.15.0-94-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX B650-A GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.6.22-1-lts - X Server 1.21.1.11 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4210 - Huawei BC11SPSC0 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-84-custom - 1.3.238 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4210 - Huawei BC11SPSC0 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 16.04 - 4.9.0-141-custom - 1.0.61 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core - ASUS K14PG-D24 - 2 x 32 GB 4800MT CentOS Linux 7 - 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 - GCC 4.8.5 20150623 |
5 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results |
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 - ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS - Intel Xeon E7 v2 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-28-amd64 - Cinnamon 4.8.6 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Orange Pi 5 - 8GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 - X Server |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel N95 - AMI Intel - Intel Device 54ef Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-25-generic - KDE Frameworks |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
SW831 - WIAT Software - 2 x 8192 MB DRAM-3200MT Uos 20 - 4.19.0-sw64-desktop - Deepin Desktop Environment |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i5-12450H - Maxsun MS-MoDT 12450H ITX WIFI - Intel Alder Lake PCH Debian 12 - 6.5.13-1-pve - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - Pine64 RockPro64 v2.1 - 4096MB Debian 12 - 6.6.16-current-rockchip64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-13700K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P - Intel Device 7a27 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-18-amd64 - KDE Plasma 5.27.5 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Loongson-3A6000-HV - Loongson XC-LS3A6M - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge Loongnix 20 - 4.19.0-19-loongson-3 - X Server 1.20.4 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Loongson-3A6000-HV - Loongson XC-LS3A6M - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge Loongnix 20 - 4.19.0-19-loongson-3 - X Server 1.20.4 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Loongson-3A6000-HV - Loongson XC-LS3A6M - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge Loongnix 20 - 4.19.0-19-loongson-3 - X Server 1.20.4 |
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 |
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A53 - Firefly ROC-RK3328-CC - 2048MB Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.4.114 - X Server 1.18.4 |
11 Systems - 217 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
Featured Processor Comparison |
Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH 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 |
8 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
ARMv7 rev 1 - Rockchip - 2048MB Debian 9.0 - 4.4.16-00006-g4431f98-dirty - LXDE |
5 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results |
AMD G-T56N - HP 17E2 - AMD 14h Root Complex Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-42-generic - GCC 9.3.0 |
4 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon E-2278GEL - Logic Supply RXM-181 TBD by OEM - Intel FreeBSD - 13.0-BETA1 - Clang 11.0.1 |
2 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Device 1480 Clear Linux OS 31470 - 5.3.8-854.native - GNOME Shell 3.34.1 |
8 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8-2T - AMD Family 17h openSUSE Leap 15.0 - 4.12.14-lp150.12.48-default - KDE Plasma 5.12.6 |
8 Systems - 439 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3 |
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 |
12 Systems - 229 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
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 |