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Individual benchmark run

POWER8E (raw), altivec supported

ibm,powernv ibm,firenze · tested Aug 27, 2026, 4:50 PM · uploaded by @l_28

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C score87,425ASM score: 81,086

System information

Processor
POWER8E (raw), altivec supported
Computer model
ibm,powernv ibm,firenze
Architecture
PowerPC 64-bit big-endian
Physical cores reported by run
12
Hardware threads reported by run
96
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
Clang 22.1.8 (Fedora 22.1.8-1.fc44)
FOSSbench version
0.4.2
Total test time
1 min 19 sec

Score summary

C multi-core87,425
C single-core6,598
ASM multi-core81,086
ASM single-core6,267

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
0.2%
Peak background CPU use
0.2%
Available memory before test
125,986 MB
Running processes
1,515
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core62,757.4 Mops/s62,757.4 million work units/sec203,3620.59 seconds24296239464824768
Single-core2,970.52 Mops/s2,970.52 million work units/sec9,6260.42 seconds78211168379375
Wide Integer Math64-bit PowerPC integer ALU10% of overall scoreMulti-core57,745.47 Mops/s57,745.47 million work units/sec187,1210.4 seconds1019611518880486210257120
Single-core3,234.35 Mops/s3,234.35 million work units/sec10,4810.52 seconds706112102606459446948446
Floating Point MathPowerPC scalar double-precision floating point10% of overall scoreMulti-core6,845.71 Mops/s6,845.71 million work units/sec40,7000.56 seconds20961042034359028619072
Single-core462.15 Mops/s462.15 million work units/sec2,7480.6 seconds13914622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core4,770.23 Mcand/s4,770.23 million work units/sec58,7470.48 seconds1296171570816
Single-core583.56 Mcand/s583.56 million work units/sec7,1870.46 seconds135120105955
Extended InstructionsAltiVec: 128-bit integer vectors (PowerPC 970)10% of overall scoreMulti-core115,467.37 Mops/s115,467.37 million work units/sec175,5890.48 seconds18196339193196640
Single-core4,064.49 Mops/s4,064.49 million work units/sec6,1810.58 seconds7371848391729
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core6,823.64 MB/s6,823.64 million work units/sec101,2410.41 seconds7961128945216
Single-core431.55 MB/s431.55 million work units/sec6,4030.43 seconds44173919032
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core7,077.45 MB/s7,077.45 million work units/sec174,3210.57 seconds4096383851397472
Single-core382.31 MB/s382.31 million work units/sec9,4160.43 seconds15513387204238
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core700.21 Mpair/s700.21 million work units/sec11,0970.47 seconds13962946549103345113696
Single-core76.83 Mpair/s76.83 million work units/sec1,2180.45 seconds13314639500430987969183
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core2,037.95 Mkey-cmp/s2,037.95 million work units/sec56,1420.99 seconds19617201405830545233888
Single-core112.53 Mkey-cmp/s112.53 million work units/sec3,1000.56 seconds314406560160959951765
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core694.74 ns/access138.18 million work units/sec17,4910.69 seconds196821597408
Single-core70.95 ns/access14.1 million work units/sec1,7840.5 seconds715807368
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core47,515.28 MB/s47,515.28 million work units/sec148,4850.41 seconds1696102299578368
Single-core17,845.3 MB/s17,845.3 million work units/sec55,7670.52 seconds73911067503320