Stockfish

This is a test of Stockfish, an advanced open-source C++11 chess benchmark that can scale up to 1024 CPU threads.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark stockfish.

Project Site

stockfishchess.org

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

26 November 2014

Last Updated

15 March 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 43 Seconds

Average Run Time

47 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

150k+ Downloads + 10k+ Public Benchmark Results

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 updated weekly as of 13 April 2024.

Revision History

pts/stockfish-1.5.0 [View Source] Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:50:37 GMT
Update Stockfish from https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/pull/775 though increase ttSize to 4096 as at 2048 seems to have a lot of run-to-run variance. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/pull/775

pts/stockfish-1.4.0 [View Source] Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:32:53 GMT
Update against Stockfish 15 upstream.

pts/stockfish-1.3.0 [View Source] Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:46:31 GMT
Update against Stockfish 13 plus incorporate feedback from https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/pull/513

pts/stockfish-1.2.0 [View Source] Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:50:00 GMT
Update against Stockfish 12, enable AArch64 optimized build.

pts/stockfish-1.1.1 [View Source] Sat, 19 May 2018 06:26:58 GMT
Add Windows support.

pts/stockfish-1.1.0 [View Source] Thu, 17 May 2018 15:32:30 GMT
Update Stockfish against version 9, use multi-threaded parameters.

pts/stockfish-1.0.1 [View Source] Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:39:33 GMT
Fix build on BSDs

pts/stockfish-1.0.0 [View Source] Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:32:02 GMT
Initial commit of Stockfish benchmark.

Suites Using This Test

Chess Test Suite

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Stockfish 16.1

Chess Benchmark

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 129 public results since 16 March 2024 with the latest data as of 17 April 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.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

Nodes Per Second (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

100th

408323344 ^{+/- 11174350}

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

96th

213827384 ^{+/- 5699233}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

93rd

163956398 ^{+/- 2167126}

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

91st

102343420 ^{+/- 7340588}

ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 72-Core

89th

84036179 ^{+/- 3696899}

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

84th

62977070 ^{+/- 1338295}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

79th

59063851 ^{+/- 1769644}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

77th

55973837 ^{+/- 3831510}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

77th

55483956 ^{+/- 3856588}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 53082452

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

71st

44386009 ^{+/- 1359532}

Intel Core i9-14900K

67th

39054643 ^{+/- 780463}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

61st

24307311 ^{+/- 577289}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

56th

17561774 ^{+/- 1550313}

Intel Xeon E E-2488

54th

17273967 ^{+/- 400627}

Median

50th

16221889

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

45th

15350934 ^{+/- 401834}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

43rd

14914327 ^{+/- 790869}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

43rd

14863945 ^{+/- 1954609}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

35th

13489044 ^{+/- 567847}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

32nd

12226389 ^{+/- 827245}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

29th

10831528 ^{+/- 786662}

Low-Tier

25th

< 9545114

Intel Core i7-1280P

22nd

9143872 ^{+/- 140361}

Intel Core i7-5960X

19th

8354213 ^{+/- 218544}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

15th

7475174 ^{+/- 227927}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

11th

6006333 ^{+/- 86146}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

7th

5595086 ^{+/- 53683}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

3rd

2853788 ^{+/- 105359}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Stockfish 16.1 - Chess Benchmark) has an average run-time of 22 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 1.5%.

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

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

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).

VPBROADCASTD VPERMQ VEXTRACTI128 VPERMD VPBROADCASTQ VINSERTI128 VPBROADCASTW

AVX Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-VNNI)

Used by default on supported hardware.

VPDPBUSD

FMA (FMA)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VFMADD132SD VFMSUB231SD VFMADD213SD VFNMADD231SD VFNMADD132SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 16 March 2024

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)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 72-Core

Windows 11 Framework 16 2 Systems - 147 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-27-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
dddd 2 Systems - 219 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 214 Benchmark Results
2024-04-09-1129 1 System - 46 Benchmark Results	Snapdragon Compute - Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 - 1 x 32768 MB 2092MHz Hynix H9HCNNNFAMMLXR- Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 211 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
2024-04-10-1051 1 System - 201 Benchmark Results	Ampere Altra Max - HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 - 16 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 208 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 192 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 188 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 152 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 148 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 147 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 144 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 129 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 122 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605

xeon emr 4 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results	2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592+ - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D54Q-2U S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.6.0-rc5-phx-patched - GNOME Shell 45.0
kdlkf 3 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core - AMD Cinnabar - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-15-generic - GNOME Shell
icelake march 2 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Ice Lake-LP DRAM Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
5900hx eo q1 2 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY_G513QY G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
ble 2 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-5960X - Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
fggg 4 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.0-060800rc1daily20240126-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
dgg 2 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-18-amd64 - X Server 1.20.11
ddddx 4 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores - ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-15-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
dddd 3 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - NB01 TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 NL5xNU - AMD Renoir Tuxedo 22.04 - 6.0.0-1010-oem - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
2888 4 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E E-2488 - Supermicro Super Server X13SCL-F v0123456789 - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
n1n1 4 Systems - 120 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - GIGABYTE G242-P36-00 MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 - Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-15-generic - GCC 13.2.0
sssa 3 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
dldl 2 Systems - 41 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI Prestige 14Evo A12M MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
Xeon Max Linux 6.9 Kernel Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480 - Supermicro SYS-221H-TNR X13DEM v1.10 - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.9.0-060900rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
dgg 2 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-18-amd64 - X Server 1.20.11