Stress-NG

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

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

6 May 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 56 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Attr

Accolades

100k+ Downloads + 5k+ 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 current as of 22 May 2022.

Revision History

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 0.14

Test: CPU Stress

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 150 public results since 5 May 2022 with the latest data as of 26 May 2022.

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 7773X 64-Core

100th

229385 ^{+/- 21458}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

94th

133242 ^{+/- 8240}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

93rd

129033 ^{+/- 1864}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

88th

84210 ^{+/- 150}

Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core

85th

65464 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

83rd

42697 ^{+/- 360}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

80th

40194 ^{+/- 276}

Intel Core i9-12900K

77th

32399 ^{+/- 61}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 22671

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

75th

22610 ^{+/- 129}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

70th

21190 ^{+/- 174}

Intel Core i5-12600K

65th

19561 ^{+/- 151}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

62nd

18141 ^{+/- 162}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

57th

15392 ^{+/- 464}

Median

50th

9994

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

49th

9575 ^{+/- 1106}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

47th

8591 ^{+/- 166}

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

43rd

8470 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

42nd

8146 ^{+/- 879}

Intel Core i7-8565U

40th

7619 ^{+/- 25}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

37th

7447 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i5-1135G7

35th

6225 ^{+/- 237}

Intel Core i5-1145G7

34th

6205 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

29th

5928 ^{+/- 179}

Low-Tier

25th

< 4770

Apple M1

15th

2315 ^{+/- 1}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

5th

457 ^{+/- 1}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Stress-NG 0.14 - 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 0.2%.

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.

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

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDDUP MOVSLDUP

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

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 VBROADCASTSS VEXTRACTF128 VINSERTF128 VPERMILPD VBROADCASTSD

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 VINSERTI128 VPGATHERQQ VGATHERQPD

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

WAITPKG / UMWAIT / TPAUSE (WAITPKG)

Used by default on supported hardware.

TPAUSE

FMA (FMA)

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

VFMADD231SS VFMADD132SS VFNMADD132SS VFMADD132SD VFMADD231SD VFMSUB231SD VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD132SD VFMADD132PD VFMSUB132PD VFMSUB132SD VFMADD213SD VFMADD213PD VFNMADD231SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 21 May 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, libapparmor.so.1, libbsd.so.0, libc.so.6, libcrypt.so.1, libjpeg.so.8, libsctp.so.1, libz.so.1, libmd.so.0.

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 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 rev 0 8-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M1

Amazon EC2 Graviton3 Benchmark Comparison 5 Systems - 94 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7R13 - Amazon EC2 c6a.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1004-aws - GCC 11.2.0
Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge Graviton3 Tests 3 Systems - 102 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1004-aws - GCC 11.2.0
Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge AWS Graviton3 3 Systems - 101 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 c6g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1004-aws - GCC 11.2.0
Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge AWS Graviton3 2 Systems - 101 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 c6g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1004-aws - GCC 11.2.0
Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge Graviton3 Tests 2 Systems - 102 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1004-aws - GCC 11.2.0
linux-amd-ryzen-pro-4750g-stress-ng 1 System - 22 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G - BIOSTAR X470GTQ - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-33-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge Graviton3 1 System - 106 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1004-aws - GCC 11.2.0
aaaa 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.medium - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.109-104.500.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
aaaa 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.large - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.109-104.500.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
aaaa 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.109-104.500.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
aaaa 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.2xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.109-104.500.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
aaaa 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.109-104.500.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7g.4xlarge 1 System - 69 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.109-104.500.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c6g.4xlarge 1 System - 69 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 c6g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.109-104.500.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
linux-amd-ryzen-5700g-3600mt-mtgoff-stress-ng 1 System - 22 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - BIOSTAR X470GTQ - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-30-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0

stress alder 4 Systems - 22 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.17.0-051700-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
stress-ng tigerlake 3 Systems - 22 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0GG9PT - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.13.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
5950X May 3 Systems - 31 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.0-phx - GNOME Shell 42.0
Clear Linux 36260 4 Systems - 183 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.13.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Clear Linux 36260 3 Systems - 183 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.13.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Clear Linux 36260 2 Systems - 177 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Clear Linux OS 36260 - 5.17.4-1139.native - GNOME Shell 42.0
Clear Linux 36260 8 Systems - 126 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-27-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
Clear Linux 36260 5 Systems - 183 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.13.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
cascade may Featured Vulkan Comparison	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-23-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
new tests may aarch64 2 Systems - 90 Benchmark Results	Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - WIWYNN Mt.Jade - Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.13.0-27-generic - X Server
epyc-7f32-may 3 Systems - 45 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Debian 11 - 5.10.0-10-amd64 - GNOME Shell 3.38.6
stress-ng 3200U 3 Systems - 21 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 3200U - MOTILE PF4PU1F - AMD Raven Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-051500-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
m1 new 5 Systems - 45 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - 8GB Arch Linux ARM - 5.17.0-rc7-asahi-next-20220310-5-2-ARCH - KDE Plasma 5.24.4
Amazon EC2 Graviton3 Benchmark Comparison 5 Systems - 94 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - Amazon EC2 a1.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-1004-aws - GCC 11.2.0
ryzen stress-ng 3 Systems - 22 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G - ASUS PRIME B450M-A - AMD Raven Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1

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 0.14

Test: CPU Stress

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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