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Individual benchmark run

POWER8E (raw), altivec supported

ibm,powernv ibm,firenze · tested Aug 27, 2026, 4:43 PM · uploaded by @l_28

In Review · not yet included in the processor average

C score74,137ASM score: 77,252

System information

Processor
POWER8E (raw), altivec supported
Computer model
ibm,powernv ibm,firenze
Architecture
PowerPC 64-bit big-endian
Physical cores reported by run
24
Hardware threads reported by run
192
L1 cache
96 KB
L2 cache
512 KB
L3 cache
8 MB
Memory
130,512 MB
Operating system
Fedora Linux 44 (Server Edition)
Kernel
Linux 7.0.13-200.fc44.ppc64le
Compiler
GCC 16.1.1 20260515 (Red Hat 16.1.1-2)
FOSSbench version
0.4.2
Total test time
1 min 42 sec

Score summary

C multi-core74,137
C single-core7,197
ASM multi-core77,252
ASM single-core6,350

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
0.1%
Peak background CPU use
0.2%
Available memory before test
126,119 MB
Running processes
1,532
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core83,742.13 Mops/s83,742.13 million work units/sec271,3610.55 seconds14919213331406912
Single-core3,083.35 Mops/s3,083.35 million work units/sec9,9910.52 seconds1,00911677786962
Wide Integer Math64-bit PowerPC integer ALU10% of overall scoreMulti-core69,145.79 Mops/s69,145.79 million work units/sec224,0630.43 seconds6419216746935414694778816
Single-core3,192.25 Mops/s3,192.25 million work units/sec10,3440.46 seconds611110373545112877706685
Floating Point MathPowerPC scalar double-precision floating point10% of overall scoreMulti-core7,113.63 Mops/s7,113.63 million work units/sec42,2931.08 seconds201922084068718057238144
Single-core564.97 Mops/s564.97 million work units/sec3,3590.58 seconds16314622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core1,524.39 Mcand/s1,524.39 million work units/sec18,7730.5 seconds219257190272
Single-core383.2 Mcand/s383.2 million work units/sec4,7190.57 seconds110116382630
Extended InstructionsAltiVec: 128-bit integer vectors (PowerPC 970)10% of overall scoreMulti-core78,023.78 Mops/s78,023.78 million work units/sec118,6490.4 seconds51192668049568512
Single-core8,006.29 Mops/s8,006.29 million work units/sec12,1750.53 seconds1,31813276342044
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core6,040.02 MB/s6,040.02 million work units/sec89,6151.2 seconds91922903001984
Single-core321.58 MB/s321.58 million work units/sec4,7710.46 seconds35158799230
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core3,698.23 MB/s3,698.23 million work units/sec91,0900.49 seconds9192144574218432
Single-core300.72 MB/s300.72 million work units/sec7,4070.46 seconds1311867630508
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core1,310.49 Mpair/s1,310.49 million work units/sec20,7690.42 seconds111925454727694629025280
Single-core156.97 Mpair/s156.97 million work units/sec2,4880.44 seconds26514635798535246020246
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core1,918.77 Mkey-cmp/s1,918.77 million work units/sec52,8592.1 seconds119215956067587380916160
Single-core137.73 Mkey-cmp/s137.73 million work units/sec3,7940.46 seconds314406560160959951765
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core1,440.32 ns/access133.3 million work units/sec16,8741.44 seconds11921662276696
Single-core66.96 ns/access14.93 million work units/sec1,8900.47 seconds715807368
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core31,272.89 MB/s31,272.89 million work units/sec97,7281.24 seconds16192204599156736
Single-core17,935.59 MB/s17,935.59 million work units/sec56,0490.43 seconds61511071767544