CacheBench

This is a performance test of CacheBench, which is part of LLCbench. CacheBench is designed to test the memory and cache bandwidth performance

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

Project Site

icl.cs.utk.edu

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

10 January 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

3 Seconds

Average Run Time

6 Minutes, 27 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 20k+ 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 21 April 2024.

Revision History

pts/cachebench-1.2.0 [View Source] Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:30:23 GMT
Ensure -O3 is set in its build system.

pts/cachebench-1.1.2 [View Source] Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:38:36 GMT
Fix for FreeBSD

pts/cachebench-1.1.1 [View Source] Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:07:15 GMT
Windows support.

pts/cachebench-1.1.0 [View Source] Wed, 04 Jan 2017 20:24:47 GMT
Change download link to a static one.

pts/cachebench-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:34:54 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Memory Test Suite

CPU Massive

Single-Threaded

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

CacheBench

Test: Read

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 279 public results since 10 January 2024 with the latest data as of 24 April 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

MB/s (Average)

Intel Core i9-14900K

99th

22519 ^{+/- 511}

Intel Core i7-1280P

97th

18257 ^{+/- 22}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4416

94th

14863 ^{+/- 20}

Intel Xeon Silver 4416

93rd

14856 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

89th

14090 ^{+/- 268}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

87th

13499 ^{+/- 83}

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

85th

13343 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

81st

12614 ^{+/- 535}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

79th

12360 ^{+/- 65}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

76th

11862 ^{+/- 54}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 11843

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

74th

11778 ^{+/- 73}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

72nd

11543

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

72nd

11439

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

70th

11274 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

67th

11050 ^{+/- 20}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

66th

10897 ^{+/- 46}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

64th

10520 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

63rd

10228 ^{+/- 13}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

61st

9892 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

56th

9390 ^{+/- 1}

Median

50th

9151

Intel Core i9-10980XE

47th

9088 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

46th

8970 ^{+/- 310}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

45th

8946 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

43rd

8906

Intel Core i7-1165G7

43rd

8885 ^{+/- 6}

Apple M2

43rd

8884 ^{+/- 6}

Intel N95

39th

8571 ^{+/- 61}

Intel Core i7-8565U

32nd

7855 ^{+/- 9}

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

32nd

7641 ^{+/- 647}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

31st

7628 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 8534PN 32-Core

29th

7616

AMD EPYC 8324P 32-Core

27th

7615 ^{+/- 1}

Low-Tier

25th

< 7371

Intel Core i7-1065G7

24th

7326 ^{+/- 43}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

15th

6060 ^{+/- 2}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218

13th

5327

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core

9th

4581 ^{+/- 522}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (CacheBench - Test: Read) has an average run-time of 7 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.

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.

COMISD MULSD SUBSD CVTSI2SD DIVSD MOVAPD ADDSD UNPCKLPD MOVUPD ADDPD

Last automated analysis: 11 January 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries 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)

RISC-V 64-bit

riscv64

SiFive RISC-V, rv64imafdcv, rv64imafdcvsu

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

(Many Processors)

Intel / AMD x86 32-bit

i686

(Many Processors)

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 rev 3 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2, Apple M2, Phytium D2000, Rockchip ARMv8 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

c5.2xlarge 1 System - 79 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.2xlarge 1 System - 74 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.2xlarge 1 System - 50 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.2xlarge 1 System - 44 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.2xlarge 1 System - 78 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.2xlarge 1 System - 73 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.2xlarge 1 System - 78 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.2xlarge 1 System - 73 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.2xlarge 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7a.2xlarge 1 System - 78 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9R14 - Amazon EC2 c7a.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7a.2xlarge 1 System - 73 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9R14 - Amazon EC2 c7a.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c5.2xlarge 1 System - 36 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.2xlarge 1 System - 49 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.2xlarge 1 System - 49 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712
c7i.2xlarge 1 System - 43 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.214-202.855.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 7.3.1 20180712

2024-01-31-1541 62 Systems - 456 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Intel S2600CWR - Intel Xeon E7 v4 SystemRescue 10.01 - 6.1.30-1-lts - X Server 1.21.1.8
2024 year 4 Systems - 100 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores - ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-13-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
xeon jan 3 Systems - 69 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
rpyc jan 2 Systems - 262 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
cpuall_v2 2 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results	Intel 0000% - ASUS Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Fedora 39 - 6.7.7-200.fc39.x86_64 - OpenCL 3.0 + OpenCL 1.2 Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL 20.3 + OpenCL 3.0 LINUX + OpenCL 1.2 Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL 20.3
eo jan 4 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 - AMD 17h Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
jlp-benchmark-mix-old-cpu 2 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6600 - ASUS H170 PRO GAMING - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 openSUSE 20240209 - 6.7.4-1-default - KDE Plasma 6.0.80
cpu-bench 2 Systems - 390 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Mixtile Blade 3 v1.0.1 - 16GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.10.160-rockchip - GNOME Shell 42.9
85c-40mv-undervolt Featured OpenGL Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core - ASRock B650M Pro RS WiFi - AMD Device 14d8 EndeavourOS rolling - 6.7.1-lqx1-1-lqx - GNOME Shell 45.3
fg 2 Systems - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-39-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
2024-03-31-1305 27 Systems - 162 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Arch Linux - 6.8.2-arch2-1 - GCC 13.2.1 20230801
2024-03-28-1658 76 Systems - 921 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P - Intel Device 7a27 SystemRescue 10.01 - 6.1.30-1-lts - X Server 1.21.1.8
new-tests 7 Systems - 167 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 8534PN 64-Core - AMD Cinnabar - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.6.9-060609-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
tgl tgl 3 Systems - 79 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1185G7 - Dell XPS 13 9310 0DXP1F - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
llama 4 Systems - 5 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework FRANMDCP07 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1

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Test: Read

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