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Individual benchmark run

POWER8E (raw), altivec supported

ibm,powernv ibm,firenze · tested Aug 27, 2026, 4:47 PM · uploaded by @l_28

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C score79,925ASM score: 72,831

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
Clang 22.1.8 (Fedora 22.1.8-1.fc44)
FOSSbench version
0.4.2
Total test time
1 min 46 sec

Score summary

C multi-core79,925
C single-core6,654
ASM multi-core72,831
ASM single-core6,322

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
0%
Peak background CPU use
0%
Available memory before test
125,836 MB
Running processes
1,544
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core67,777.18 Mops/s67,777.18 million work units/sec219,6280.39 seconds86192675531536256
Single-core2,956.73 Mops/s2,956.73 million work units/sec9,5810.52 seconds9701400415614
Wide Integer Math64-bit PowerPC integer ALU10% of overall scoreMulti-core72,247.42 Mops/s72,247.42 million work units/sec234,1130.7 seconds1101926978955710038512768
Single-core3,247.71 Mops/s3,247.71 million work units/sec10,5240.45 seconds612116499789213725390448
Floating Point MathPowerPC scalar double-precision floating point10% of overall scoreMulti-core8,174.59 Mops/s8,174.59 million work units/sec48,6000.94 seconds201922084068718057238144
Single-core453.97 Mops/s453.97 million work units/sec2,6990.41 seconds9214622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core2,373.93 Mcand/s2,373.93 million work units/sec29,2360.65 seconds4192114380544
Single-core630.82 Mcand/s630.82 million work units/sec7,7690.52 seconds165124573945
Extended InstructionsAltiVec: 128-bit integer vectors (PowerPC 970)10% of overall scoreMulti-core140,457.65 Mops/s140,457.65 million work units/sec213,5910.75 seconds171192431001212736
Single-core4,070 Mops/s4,070 million work units/sec6,1890.59 seconds7461855298074
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core6,535.37 MB/s6,535.37 million work units/sec96,9640.86 seconds71922257890432
Single-core432.24 MB/s432.24 million work units/sec6,4130.43 seconds44173919032
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core6,190.07 MB/s6,190.07 million work units/sec152,4650.49 seconds15192622749302208
Single-core377.38 MB/s377.38 million work units/sec9,2950.53 seconds19013440065174
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core640.25 Mpair/s640.25 million work units/sec10,1470.55 seconds71924651737032985743232
Single-core77.19 Mpair/s77.19 million work units/sec1,2230.47 seconds138113854832704961388030
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core2,012.34 Mkey-cmp/s2,012.34 million work units/sec55,4362 seconds119215956067587380916160
Single-core113.24 Mkey-cmp/s113.24 million work units/sec3,1200.56 seconds314406560160959951765
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core1,482.99 ns/access129.47 million work units/sec16,3881.48 seconds11921662276696
Single-core52.65 ns/access18.99 million work units/sec2,4040.42 seconds813098456
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core26,230.64 MB/s26,230.64 million work units/sec81,9711.47 seconds16192204599156736
Single-core18,301.63 MB/s18,301.63 million work units/sec57,1930.43 seconds62211068209392