Whisper.cpp

Whisper.cpp is a port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++. Whisper.cpp is developed by Georgi Gerganov for transcribing WAV audio files to text / speech recognition. Whisper.cpp supports ARM NEON, x86 AVX, and other advanced CPU features.

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

Project Site

github.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

16 June 2023

Last Updated

2 June 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

3 Minutes, 16 Seconds

Average Run Time

32 Minutes, 8 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

20k+ Downloads

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.
Data updated weekly as of 22 December 2024.

Revision History

pts/whisper-cpp-1.1.0 [View Source] Sun, 02 Jun 2024 10:53:16 GMT
Update against Whisper.cpp 1.6.2 upstream.

pts/whisper-cpp-1.0.0 [View Source] Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:44:41 GMT
Add initial whisper.cpp AI benchmark.

Suites Using This Test

Machine Learning

HPC - High Performance Computing

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Whisper.cpp 1.6.2

Model: ggml-base.en - Input: 2016 State of the Union

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 343 public results since 2 June 2024 with the latest data as of 20 December 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

Seconds (Average)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

100th

60 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core

98th

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core

95th

65 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core

93rd

76 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

87th

82 ^{+/- 4}

AMD EPYC 4584PX 16-Core

87th

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core

85th

85 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 4564P 16-Core

83rd

87 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

80th

AMD EPYC 4484PX 12-Core

77th

94 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

77th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 97

AMD EPYC 4464P 12-Core

73rd

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

73rd

100

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

72nd

102

AMD EPYC 4364P 8-Core

69th

104

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

69th

105

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

67th

107

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

65th

108

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

63rd

109

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

62nd

114

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

62nd

116 ^{+/- 15}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

61st

118 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

58th

122

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

58th

122

AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

56th

124 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

53rd

129

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

53rd

129

Intel Core i9-10980XE

52nd

131

Median

50th

132

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

49th

132

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core

46th

137

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

45th

139 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

43rd

151 ^{+/- 11}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

42nd

156 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i9-14900K

40th

159 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

36th

176

AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core

35th

187 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

34th

188

Intel Core i9-13900K

33rd

191

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

33rd

191 ^{+/- 12}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

32nd

194

Intel Core i3-14100

29th

199

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

28th

211

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

26th

213 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

26th

213

Low-Tier

25th

> 213

Intel Core i5-14600K

23rd

217

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

23rd

218

Intel Core i5-13600K

22nd

222

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

19th

228

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

19th

254 ^{+/- 31}

Intel Core i5-14500

18th

275

Intel Core i7-1185G7

16th

314 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i5-13400

14th

327

Intel Core i5-14400F

14th

337

Intel Core i7-4790K

12th

345 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

9th

402 ^{+/- 49}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

9th

403 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

8th

408 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-1280P

5th

433 ^{+/- 22}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Whisper.cpp 1.6.2 - Model: ggml-base.en - Input: 2016 State of the Union) has an average run-time of 10 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%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not 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 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

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 VBROADCASTSD VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VPERMILPS

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).

VPBROADCASTQ VINSERTI128 VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTW VPERMQ VPBROADCASTB VPBROADCASTD VPSLLVD VPERMD VPSRLVD VPERM2I128

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

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).

VFMADD132PS VFMADD132SS VFMADD231SD VFMADD231PS VFMADD213PS VFMADD213SD VFMADD132SD VFNMADD231PS VFNMADD132PS VFMADD213SS VFMADD231SS VFNMADD231SS VFNMADD213SS VFNMADD213SD

Last automated analysis: 6 June 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 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1

hurricane-server 1 System - 322 Benchmark Results	AMD Eng Sample 100-000000897-03 - Supermicro Super Server H13SSL-N v2.00 - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-50-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
Libreboot-vs-modern 14 Systems - 67 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-4790K - Dell OptiPlex 7020/9020 SFF [OptiPlex v1.0] - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Debian - 6.11.5-amd64 - GNOME Shell 47.0
Ubuntu 20.04 Benchmarks 1 System - 5 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
5.15.0-126-generic + Ubuntu 20.04 Tests 1 System - 9 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H Benchmarks 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Ubuntu 20.04 Benchmarks 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Ubuntu 20.04 Performance 1 System - 7 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
5.15.0-126-generic + Ubuntu 20.04 Tests 1 System - 7 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H Benchmarks 1 System - 4 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H + Intel UHD 8GB + Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 (1.35.1 BIOS) 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H Benchmarks 1 System - 7 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
5.15.0-126-generic + Ubuntu 20.04 Tests 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Ubuntu 20.04 Performance 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H Performance 1 System - 9 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H Performance 1 System - 7 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9

dkfkda 2 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - LENOVO ThinkPad T14s Gen 2a 20XF004WUS - AMD Renoir Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.8-300.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.0
Linux - Intel Meteor Lake vs. AMD Zen 4 Laptop Benchmarks 3 Systems - 413 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework Laptop 13 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc4daily20240621-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
Intel and AMD Desktop CPUs Mid 2024 Linux Benchmarks 18 Systems - 442 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 8700G - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
Intel Meteor Lake Tuning Benchmark Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-rc2-stock - GNOME Shell 46.0
dffsa 3 Systems - 26 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
dddd 2 Systems - 107 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - PHX Swift SFE16-43 Ray_PEU - AMD Device 14e8 Tuxedo 22.04 - 6.5.0-10022-tuxedo - KDE Plasma 5.27.10
slsls 3 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
Desktop Mid 2024 Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
june juny 3 Systems - 91 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
dddd 2 Systems - 107 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - PHX Swift SFE16-43 Ray_PEU - AMD Device 14e8 Tuxedo 22.04 - 6.5.0-10022-tuxedo - KDE Plasma 5.27.10
dfff 2 Systems - 51 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
lll 2 Systems - 33 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-22-generic - GCC 13.2.0
june june 4 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
ai ai ai 5 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-060800-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
kdkdk 5 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0