Stress-NG

Stress-NG is a Linux stress tool developed by Colin Ian King.

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

Project Site

github.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

4 June 2015

Last Updated

14 January 2025

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 3 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 42 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Attr

Accolades

200k+ 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 9 February 2025.

Revision History

pts/stress-ng-1.13.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:03:37 GMT
Update against latest upstream from https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/315 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/315

pts/stress-ng-1.12.0 [View Source] Sat, 04 May 2024 20:28:43 GMT
Update against upstream per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/307 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/307

pts/stress-ng-1.11.0 [View Source] Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:02:27 GMT
Upate against 0.16.04 upstream.

pts/stress-ng-1.10.0 [View Source] Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:40:36 GMT
Pull in update https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/282 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/282

pts/stress-ng-1.9.0 [View Source] Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:32:17 GMT
Update against stress-ng-0.15.07 upstream for improved CPU scalability.

pts/stress-ng-1.8.0 [View Source] Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:38:28 GMT
Update against upstream from https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/274 but missing version bump and updating of SHA256/MD5 hashes, fixed. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/274

pts/stress-ng-1.7.0 [View Source] Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:35:31 GMT
Update against upstream via/from: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/271 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/271

pts/stress-ng-1.6.0 [View Source] Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:53:35 GMT
Update against v0.14.06 upstream, set thread count to -1 rather than 0 per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/251 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/251

pts/stress-ng-1.5.1 [View Source] Fri, 06 May 2022 05:46:07 GMT
apparmor development files needed as a system dependency now for building stress-ng.

pts/stress-ng-1.5.0 [View Source] Thu, 05 May 2022 18:27:02 GMT
Update against stress-ng 0.14 upstrea. Rename RdRand option to x86_64 RdRand for future limiting/sorting.

pts/stress-ng-1.4.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:14:00 GMT
Update against v0.13.02 upstream to fix build problems with newer toolchains.

pts/stress-ng-1.3.1 [View Source] Sun, 17 May 2020 16:19:02 GMT
Stress-NG test profile works fine on macOS.

pts/stress-ng-1.3.0 [View Source] Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:56:16 GMT
Update against latest upstream.

pts/stress-ng-1.2.2 [View Source] Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:33:16 GMT
Update with FreeBSD support - https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/50

pts/stress-ng-1.2.1 [View Source] Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:07:01 GMT
Fix https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/6

pts/stress-ng-1.2.0 [View Source] Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:56:57 GMT
Update against upstream, host on PTS server to avoid broken mirror links

pts/stress-ng-1.1.0 [View Source] Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:57:25 GMT
Update stress-ng upstream as package of previous version seems to have changed.

pts/stress-ng-1.0.0 [View Source] Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:26:36 GMT
Initial stress-ng commit.

Suites Using This Test

Common Kernel Benchmarks

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Stress-NG 0.18.09

Test: CPU Stress

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 112 public results since 14 January 2025 with the latest data as of 7 February 2025.

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

Bogo Ops/s (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core

100th

685401 ^{+/- 977}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

94th

481718 ^{+/- 217}

AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core

91st

249557 ^{+/- 899}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

87th

197124 ^{+/- 787}

2 x AMD EPYC 9255 24-Core

85th

157701 ^{+/- 1883}

AMD EPYC 9455P 48-Core

81st

151803 ^{+/- 1025}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 62091

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

72nd

57637 ^{+/- 4676}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

61st

35260 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

53rd

26538 ^{+/- 587}

Median

50th

25544

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

48th

24795 ^{+/- 103}

Intel Core i7-1280P

40th

19815 ^{+/- 183}

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

36th

16806 ^{+/- 16}

AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core

30th

14178 ^{+/- 141}

Low-Tier

25th

< 8922

2 x Intel Xeon L5638

24th

8455 ^{+/- 862}

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 24-Core

10th

1120 ^{+/- 27}

ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

7th

675 ^{+/- 8}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Stress-NG 0.18.09 - Test: CPU Stress) has an average run-time of 2 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 0.1%.

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.

SUBSD MINSD CVTSI2SD MULSD MOVAPD ADDSD DIVSD COMISD MOVDQU MOVDQA PSRLDQ MOVD PSHUFD CVTSS2SD ANDPD UNPCKLPD MOVUPD SUBPD MULPD UNPCKHPD ADDPD SHUFPD UCOMISD CVTTSD2SI PUNPCKLQDQ MOVLPD DIVPD MOVNTI SQRTSD MAXSD CLFLUSH PADDQ CVTSD2SS ANDNPD ORPD MOVHPD MOVNTDQ XORPD PMULUDQ

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDDUP MOVSLDUP

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PALIGNR PSHUFB

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 VBROADCASTSD VBROADCASTSS VEXTRACTF128 VINSERTF128 VPERM2F128 VPERMILPD

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).

VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTD VPBROADCASTQ VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTB VPBROADCASTW VPERMQ VPERMD VINSERTI128 VPERMPD VPGATHERQQ

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

SERIALIZE (SERIALIZE)

Used by default on supported hardware.

SERIALIZE

WAITPKG / UMWAIT / TPAUSE (WAITPKG)

Used by default on supported hardware.

TPAUSE

Cache Line Write Back (CLWB)

Used by default on supported hardware.

CLWB

FMA (FMA)

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

VFMADD231SS VFMADD132SD VFMADD132SS VFNMADD132SS VFMADD231SD VFMSUB231SD VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD132SD VFMADD231PD VFMADD132PD VFMADD132PS VFMSUB132PD VFMSUB132SD VFMADD213SD VFNMADD231SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 25 June 2023

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libapparmor.so.1, libbsd.so.0, libcrypt.so.1, libEGL.so.1, libgbm.so.1, libGLESv2.so.2, libjpeg.so.8, libm.so.6, libmpfr.so.6, libsctp.so.1, libz.so.1, libc.so.6, libmd.so.0, libGLdispatch.so.0, libdrm.so.2, libwayland-server.so.0, libexpat.so.1, libgmp.so.10, libffi.so.8.

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

ARMv6 32-bit

armv6l

ARMv7

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M2 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 24-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, Qualcomm

stress-ng_1 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - GMKtec - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-52-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
aorus-stress-ng 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - Gigabyte X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 - AMD Raphael openSUSE Leap 15.6 - 6.4.0-150600.23.33-default - X Server 1.21.1.11
arrowlake-285k-debian-bookworm-6.12 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - Gigabyte Intel Z890 EAGLE WIFI7 - Intel Device ae7f Debian - 6.12.11-amd64 - GCC 14.2.0 + Clang 19.1.7
stress-ng-20250201 1 System - 30 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Linuxmint 21.3 - 5.15.0-130-generic - Xfce 4.18
general 1 System - 284 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9274F 24-Core - ASUS ESC8000A-E12 K14PG-D24 - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.8.0-51-generic - X Server
arrowlake-285k-debian-bookworm-6.1 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - Gigabyte Intel Z890 EAGLE WIFI7 - Intel Device ae7f Debian 12 - 6.1.0-30-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 + Clang 14.0.6
cpu-mega-test 1 System - 398 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-7700 - Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI-CF - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-51-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
snapubi2 1 System - 53 Benchmark Results	Qualcomm - ASUS Vivobook S 15 S5507QA_S5507QAD S5507QAD v1.0 - 1 x 16GB LPDDR5-8448MT Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-28-qcom-x1e - GNOME Shell 47.0
popos 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 9 185H - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment AtomMan X MTBAC - Intel Device 7e7f Pop 24.04 - 6.9.3-76060903-generic - COSMIC 0.1.0
djd 3 Systems - 91 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1 - Broadcom BCM2712 Debian 12 - 6.6.63-v8-16k+ - X Server 1.21.1.7
amd2 1 System - 54 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment EliteMini HPBSD v1.0 - AMD Phoenix Root Complex Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-13-generic - OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP
amd2 1 System - 54 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment EliteMini HPBSD v1.0 - AMD Phoenix Root Complex Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-13-generic - OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP
cpu stress 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	16 x AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core - Red Hat KVM - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20250101 - 6.13.0-1-default - GCC 14.2.1 20241007 [revision 4af44f2cf7d281f3e4f3957efce10e8b2ccb2ad3]
stress-ng cpu stress 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 4500 6-Core - MSI B550-A PRO - AMD Renoir openSUSE 20250124 - 6.13.0-0.g1513344-default - Sway 1.10
sadf 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 4500 6-Core - MSI B550-A PRO - AMD Renoir openSUSE 20250124 - 6.13.0-0.g1513344-default - Sway 1.10

new 2025 5 Systems - 82 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core - Supermicro Super Server H13SSL-N v1.01 - AMD 1Ah Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.13.0-rc4-phx-stock - GNOME Shell 47.0
sng2025 3 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
stress ng threadripper 3 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
stress ng new 3 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - ASRock X870E Taichi - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
stress-ng arrow lake 3 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z890 HERO - Intel Device ae7f Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.13.0-rc7-phx - GNOME Shell 47.0
st 4 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI Prestige 14Evo A12M MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-rc6-phx - GNOME Shell 47.0
dec 3 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - System76 Thelio Astra - Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-48-generic-64k - GNOME Shell 46.0
lunar lake stress-ng 3 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS Zenbook S 14 UX5406SA_UX5406SA UX5406SA v1.0 - Intel Device a87f Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc6-phx-drm-next - GNOME Shell 47.0
9684X stress-ng 2 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-13-generic - GNOME Shell 47.0
stress ryzen 3 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-rc6-phx - GNOME Shell 47.0
newt 2 Systems - 82 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core - Supermicro AS-3015A-I H13SAE-MF v1.00 - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.12.2-061202-generic - GNOME Shell 45.3
djd 3 Systems - 91 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1 - Broadcom BCM2712 Debian 12 - 6.6.63-v8-16k+ - X Server 1.21.1.7
ituietst308-ol810-uek7-20250102-2025Jan22 1 System - 340 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.10 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
testresult 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-7300HQ - Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming 0TXG2N - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Tuxedo 24.04 - 6.11.0-108013-tuxedo - KDE Plasma 6.2.4
ituietst308-ol88-uek6-20250102-2025Jan17 1 System - 340 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.8 - 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422

Stress-NG

Project Site

Source Repository

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

Stress-NG 0.18.09

Test: CPU Stress

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results