LLVM Clang 3.4 Is Running Very Well On AMD's High-End APU

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 1 February 2014 at 04:05 AM EST. Page 2 of 4. 12 Comments.
LLVM 3.4 Clang Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking

Interestingly for the SciMark2 composite test the performance was strongly in favor of LLVM Clang 3.4.

LLVM 3.4 Clang Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking
LLVM 3.4 Clang Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking
LLVM 3.4 Clang Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking

For many of the individual SciMark 2 tests the performance was close between these latest compiler versions...

LLVM 3.4 Clang Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking
LLVM 3.4 Clang Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking

With the Dense LU Matrix Factorization and Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation tests is where Clang performed very strong and flew past GCC 4.9.

LLVM 3.4 Clang Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking

GCC 4.9 meanwhile picked up a win with the TSCP chess benchmark.


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