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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

In Review · not yet included in the processor average

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 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
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