This is a benchmark of the WireGuard secure VPN tunnel and Linux networking stack stress test. The test runs on the local host but does require root permissions to run. The way it works is it creates three namespaces. ns0 has a loopback device. ns1 and ns2 each have wireguard devices. Those two wireguard devices send traffic through the loopback device of ns0. The end result of this is that tests wind up testing encryption and decryption at the same time -- a pretty CPU and scheduler-heavy workflow.
To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark system/wireguard.
OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 767 public results since 20 April 2020 with the latest data as of 22 February 2021.
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.
Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (WireGuard + Linux Networking Stack Stress Test) has an average run-time of 17 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 0.7%.
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.
2 Systems - 243 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10885H - HP 8736 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.10.0-14-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3 |
1 System - 238 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10885H - HP 8736 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-43-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core - ASRock AB350M Pro4 - AMD 17h Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.8.0-43-generic - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 - Dell 0JXJPT - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-65-generic - matrox |
2 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASRock B550M Pro4 - AMD Starship Clear Linux OS 34170 - 5.10.7-1014.native - GNOME Shell 3.38.2 |
4 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - Helios64 - Fuzhou Rockchip RK3399 Debian 10 - 5.9.14-rockchip64 - GCC 8.3.0 |
3 Systems - 313 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-5960X - ASRock X99 Extreme3 - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-58-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
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2 Systems - 154 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-rc1-phx - GNOME Shell 3.38.1 |