Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 AVX Compiler Tuning Performance Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 27 May 2019 at 07:51 PM EDT. 13 Comments
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Continuing on with our benchmarks this month of the newly-released GCC 9 compiler, here are some additional numbers for the AVX-512-enabled Intel Core i9 7980XE processor on Ubuntu Linux when testing tuning for various AVX widths.

These latest Intel Core i9 benchmarks of the newly pressed GCC 9 compiler show the performance when running various C/C++ benchmarks after being built with CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS of "-O3 -march=skylake", "-O3 -march=skylake-avx512 -mprefer-vector-width=128", "-O3 -march=skylake-avx512 -mprefer-vector-width=256" and "-O3 -march=skylake-avx512 -mprefer-vector-width=512"
Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

A wide assortment of compiler benchmarks were run via the Phoronix Test Suite.
Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

Looking at dozens of benchmarks overall, using AVX-512 didn't lead to the best results most often due to generally lower clock speeds but rather AVX and AVX2 still performed well although was a close call overall.
Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

FFTW shows one of the larger impacts between runs with varying AVX widths.
Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

In the case of Botan, the conventional Skylake target performed the best.
Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarks

See more via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file for all the individual tests in full.
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