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Individual benchmark run

POWER8E (raw), altivec supported

ibm,powernv ibm,firenze · tested Aug 27, 2026, 4:53 PM · uploaded by @l_28

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C score67,989ASM score: 75,122

System information

Processor
POWER8E (raw), altivec supported
Computer model
ibm,powernv ibm,firenze
Architecture
PowerPC 64-bit big-endian
Physical cores reported by run
6
Hardware threads reported by run
48
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 21 sec

Score summary

C multi-core67,989
C single-core6,522
ASM multi-core75,122
ASM single-core6,359

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
2.2%
Peak background CPU use
2.3%
Available memory before test
125,612 MB
Running processes
1,531
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core43,114.58 Mops/s43,114.58 million work units/sec139,7100.45 seconds25048125558315088
Single-core2,959.49 Mops/s2,959.49 million work units/sec9,5900.42 seconds77311355553044
Wide Integer Math64-bit PowerPC integer ALU10% of overall scoreMulti-core38,433.81 Mops/s38,433.81 million work units/sec124,5420.65 seconds216483145324909685438624
Single-core3,242.26 Mops/s3,242.26 million work units/sec10,5060.45 seconds61416699002349844201473
Floating Point MathPowerPC scalar double-precision floating point10% of overall scoreMulti-core5,681.99 Mops/s5,681.99 million work units/sec33,7810.56 seconds3348521017179514309536
Single-core462.5 Mops/s462.5 million work units/sec2,7500.52 seconds12114622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core4,126.82 Mcand/s4,126.82 million work units/sec50,8230.51 seconds2248157273248
Single-core628.56 Mcand/s628.56 million work units/sec7,7410.53 seconds165124573945
Extended InstructionsAltiVec: 128-bit integer vectors (PowerPC 970)10% of overall scoreMulti-core65,243.9 Mops/s65,243.9 million work units/sec99,2150.5 seconds21248133613028000
Single-core4,086.06 Mops/s4,086.06 million work units/sec6,2140.42 seconds5321786998648
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core5,068.79 MB/s5,068.79 million work units/sec75,2050.56 seconds14481128945216
Single-core429.67 MB/s429.67 million work units/sec6,3750.45 seconds46177278988
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core5,683.17 MB/s5,683.17 million work units/sec139,9800.48 seconds5448201986995008
Single-core380.79 MB/s380.79 million work units/sec9,3790.52 seconds19013440065174
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core861.79 Mpair/s861.79 million work units/sec13,6580.37 seconds2548469483143287796288
Single-core77.39 Mpair/s77.39 million work units/sec1,2260.53 seconds155113846430516857461764
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core1,633.65 Mkey-cmp/s1,633.65 million work units/sec45,0040.62 seconds1488600702915272616944
Single-core112.54 Mkey-cmp/s112.54 million work units/sec3,1000.56 seconds314406560160959951765
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core447.97 ns/access107.15 million work units/sec13,5630.9 seconds248357834680
Single-core64.53 ns/access15.5 million work units/sec1,9620.45 seconds715807368
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core35,218.47 MB/s35,218.47 million work units/sec110,0580.46 seconds274851284393088
Single-core14,705.14 MB/s14,705.14 million work units/sec45,9540.55 seconds64411065421088