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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 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 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