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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 MB
L2 cache
512 MB
L3 cache
8,192 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