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 August 2023

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 42 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Attr

Accolades

150k+ 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 updated weekly as of 27 November 2023.

Revision History

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 0.16.04

Test: CPU Stress

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 331 public results since 14 August 2023 with the latest data as of 29 November 2023.

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 9754 128-Core

100th

517939 ^{+/- 18665}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

96th

401276 ^{+/- 31365}

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

92nd

279538 ^{+/- 923}

2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core

91st

271344

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

89th

262136 ^{+/- 6417}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

86th

227067 ^{+/- 1820}

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

85th

220745

AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

84th

211280

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

83rd

200930 ^{+/- 2193}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

82nd

186290 ^{+/- 1602}

2 x AMD EPYC 9334 32-Core

81st

176559 ^{+/- 191}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

78th

145130 ^{+/- 4865}

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

76th

128321 ^{+/- 4230}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 119823

AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core

74th

116427

2 x AMD EPYC 9124 16-Core

72nd

88732 ^{+/- 587}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

69th

82381

AMD EPYC 9384X 32-Core

68th

76267 ^{+/- 193}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4416

67th

75853 ^{+/- 1387}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

66th

70412 ^{+/- 213}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

64th

62409 ^{+/- 390}

Intel Core i9-13900K

63rd

59075 ^{+/- 368}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

60th

41250

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

60th

40756 ^{+/- 1524}

Intel Core i9-12900

60th

40366 ^{+/- 249}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

54th

30940 ^{+/- 933}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

54th

30268 ^{+/- 3122}

Median

50th

22263

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

50th

21370 ^{+/- 1699}

Intel Xeon E-2388G

49th

20889 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core

46th

20444 ^{+/- 166}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

39th

18335 ^{+/- 1531}

Intel Core i7-1280P

38th

17911 ^{+/- 512}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

35th

15933 ^{+/- 42}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

34th

15529 ^{+/- 2143}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

34th

15497 ^{+/- 475}

Intel Xeon E-2336

33rd

14618 ^{+/- 28}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

28th

8782 ^{+/- 59}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

27th

8192 ^{+/- 39}

Low-Tier

25th

< 8164

Intel Core i7-1185G7

24th

7599 ^{+/- 575}

ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core

8th

669 ^{+/- 36}

ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core

6th

504 ^{+/- 25}

ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core

4th

311 ^{+/- 2}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Stress-NG 0.16.04 - Test: CPU Stress) has an average run-time of 3 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 0.3%.

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)

IBM Z

s390x

(Many Processors)

RISC-V 64-bit

riscv64

SiFive RISC-V

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 24-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 12-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 64-Core, ARMv8 rev 0 4-Core, ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core, Rockchip RK3588

pts-sng-2 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A55 - libre aml-s905d3-cc - 4096MB Debian 12 - 6.1.63-11439-g0f6b55c401e6 - GCC 12.2.0 + Clang 14.0.6
clear-662-1387native-v1 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900 - MSI PRO Z690-A - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Clear Linux OS 40390 - 6.6.2-1387.native - GNOME Shell 45.1
Ampere Altra Ubuntu Comparison 2 Systems - 452 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - GIGABYTE MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 - Ampere Computing LLC Device e100 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-167-generic - 1.1.182
Ampere Altra Ubuntu Comparison 1 System - 484 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - GIGABYTE MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 - Ampere Computing LLC Device e100 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-167-generic - 1.1.182
stressngs 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-13700TE - (0.13b BIOS) - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-37-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
stress-ng-1 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	2 x QEMU Virtual 2.5+ - QEMU Standard PC - 4096MB Rocky Linux 9.2 - 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
stress-ng-1 1 System - 4 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5640 - Intel 440BX - 1 x 4 GB DRAM VMW-4096MB Rocky Linux 9.2 - 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
stress-ng-1 1 System - 4 Benchmark Results	QEMU Virtual 2.5+ - QEMU Standard PC - 4096MB Rocky Linux 9.2 - 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
stress-ng-1 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5640 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Rocky Linux 8.8 - 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8.x86_64 - GCC 8.5.0 20210514
stress-ng-1 1 System - 4 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5640 - Intel 440BX - 1 x 4 GB DRAM VMW-4096MB Rocky Linux 9.2 - 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r7gd16xlarge-final 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 r7gd.16xlarge - 496GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-1036-aws - GCC 9.4.0
r6gd16xlarge-final 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 r6gd.16xlarge - 512GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-1036-aws - GCC 9.4.0
tr extra 3 Systems - 51 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-9-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
alma-8-arm-stress-ng 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	Unknown - QEMU KVM Virtual Machine - Red Hat QEMU PCIe + ICH9R AlmaLinux 8.8 - 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8.aarch64 - GCC 8.5.0 20210514
stressng 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-13500E - (0.12 BIOS) - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-36-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9

extra tests 5 Systems - 200 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core - Supermicro H13DSH - 23 x 32 GB DDR5-4800MT AlmaLinux 9.2 - 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64 - GCC 11.3.1 20221121
extra tests 4 Systems - 193 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9124 16-Core - Supermicro H13DSH - 24 x 32 GB DDR5-4800MT AlmaLinux 9.2 - 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64 - GCC 11.3.1 20221121
bergamo extra 2 Systems - 147 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9384X 32-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-47-generic - GNOME Shell 42.4
linux-zen 3 Systems - 34 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core - ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 - AMD Starship EndeavourOS rolling - 6.4.12-x64v2-xanmod1-1 - Xfce 4.18
new-new 4 Systems - 96 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H - Quanta Cloud S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.0.0-060000rc3daily20220904-generic - GNOME Shell
av1 raptor 4 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-13900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.4.6-060406-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
linux-zen Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core - ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 - AMD Starship EndeavourOS rolling - 6.4.12-x64v2-xanmod1-1 - Xfce 4.18
riscv stress ng 3 Systems - 38 Benchmark Results	SiFive RISC-V - StarFive VisionFive V2 - 8GB Debian GNU - 5.15.0-starfive - X Server
smoke test xeon e23 3 Systems - 369 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E-2388G - ASRockRack E3C252D4U - Intel Tiger Lake-H Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
9684x 2p sep 4 Systems - 183 Benchmark Results
HAEGU_ONANO 3 Systems - 16 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A78E - EDK II 4.1-33958178 - 8GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.120-tegra - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
linux-zen Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core - ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 - AMD Starship EndeavourOS rolling - 6.4.12-zen1-1-zen - Xfce 4.18
20230922 3 Systems - 17 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A78E - EDK II 3.1-32827747 - 16GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.104-tegra - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
stresss-ng Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD EPYC 9R14 - Amazon EC2 m7a.large - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-1025-aws - 1.3.238
sphinx1031 4 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - EDK II r35.3.1-63e71c9-dirty - 8GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.104-tegra - X Server

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

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Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Stress-NG 0.16.04

Test: CPU Stress

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results