Blender

Blender is an open-source 3D creation and modeling software project. This test is of Blender's Cycles performance with various sample files. GPU computing via NVIDIA OptiX and NVIDIA CUDA is currently supported as well as HIP for AMD Radeon GPUs and Intel oneAPI for Intel Graphics.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark blender.

Project Site

blender.org

Source Repository

git.blender.org

Test Created

11 July 2016

Last Updated

22 November 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

23 Seconds

Average Run Time

6 Minutes, 58 Seconds

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 10k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

Supported Architectures

x86_64

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* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 25 December 2024.

Revision History

pts/blender-4.3.0 [View Source] Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:19:42 GMT
Update against Blender 4.3 upstream.

pts/blender-4.2.0 [View Source] Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:51:09 GMT
Update against Blender 4.2 LTS release.

pts/blender-4.1.0 [View Source] Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:26:07 GMT
Update against Blender 4.1 upstream, add Junkshop scene too.

pts/blender-4.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:55:43 GMT
Update against Blender 4.0 upstream.

pts/blender-3.6.0 [View Source] Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:54:02 GMT
Update against Blender 3.6 upstream.

pts/blender-3.5.0 [View Source] Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:57:14 GMT
Update against Blender 3.5 upstream.

pts/blender-3.4.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:54:02 GMT
Update against Blender 3.4 upstream.

pts/blender-3.3.1 [View Source] Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:57:49 GMT
Update SHA256 / MD5 for Blender 3.3 Linux as upstream appears to have respun that build. Fixes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/issues/671

pts/blender-3.3.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Sep 2022 07:44:20 GMT
Update against Blender 3.3 upstream, add Intel oneAPI back-end option.

pts/blender-3.2.0 [View Source] Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:25:18 GMT
Update against Blender 3.2 upstram, expose Radeon HIP option, switch to using --cycles-device option in recent versions for setting device acceleration.

pts/blender-3.0.0 [View Source] Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:08:32 GMT
Update against Blender 3.0 upstream release.

pts/blender-1.9.1 [View Source] Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:22:17 GMT
Update download links for Barbershop blend files, old mirror broke.

pts/blender-1.9.0 [View Source] Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:02:18 GMT
Update against Blender 2.92 upstream.

pts/blender-1.8.0 [View Source] Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:54:31 GMT
Update against upstream Blender 2.90.

pts/blender-1.7.1 [View Source] Sun, 17 May 2020 15:33:56 GMT
Add macOS support, add more download mirrors.

pts/blender-1.7.0 [View Source] Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:07:03 GMT
Update against Blender 2.82 upstream.

pts/blender-1.6.0 [View Source] Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:28:12 GMT
Update against Blender 2.81.

pts/blender-1.5.1 [View Source] Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:55:34 GMT
Fix for Blender 2.80 Python API preferences handling for GPU selection.

pts/blender-1.5.0 [View Source] Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:39:52 GMT
Update against Blender 2.80 upstream.

pts/blender-1.4.1 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:47:17 GMT
Square away the Windows support.

pts/blender-1.4.0 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:43:14 GMT
Update against Blender 2.79a, plumb in initial Windows support.

pts/blender-1.3.2 [View Source] Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:05:28 GMT
Fix GPU download link

pts/blender-1.3.1 [View Source] Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:34:23 GMT
Add new Barbershop scene.

pts/blender-1.3.0 [View Source] Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:15:52 GMT
Update against Blender 2.79 upstream

pts/blender-1.2.0 [View Source] Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:35:10 GMT
Update to upstream 2.78c

pts/blender-1.1.1 [View Source] Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:44:56 GMT
Add explicit CPU-only / NONE acceleration option

pts/blender-1.1.0 [View Source] Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:02:29 GMT
Update against upstream Blender 2.78a

pts/blender-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:09:41 GMT
Initial commit

Suites Using This Test

Multi-Core

OpenCL

Common Workstation Benchmarks

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Server CPU Tests

Renderers

NVIDIA GPU Compute

Game Development

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Blender 4.3

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 150 public results since 23 November 2024 with the latest data as of 25 December 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

Seconds (Average)

AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core

98th

AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core

93rd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

87th

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

83rd

Mid-Tier

75th

> 48

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

75th

48 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 4564P 16-Core

71st

AMD EPYC 4584PX 16-Core

64th

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

60th

72 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 4484PX 12-Core

56th

AMD EPYC 4464P 12-Core

53rd

Median

50th

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core

48th

AMD EPYC 4364P 8-Core

45th

104

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core

38th

108 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

35th

127

AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

29th

155 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

26th

170 ^{+/- 13}

Low-Tier

25th

> 175

Apple M4

21st

206 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core

17th

215

Intel Core i7-10875H

14th

216 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

11th

222 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

9th

228 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-1280P

5th

254 ^{+/- 20}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Blender 4.3 - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only) has an average run-time of 6 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.2%.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

SSE2 (SSE2)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDQA PUNPCKLQDQ PADDQ PSUBQ SHUFPD MOVD MOVDQU SUBSD MULSD COMISD CVTTSD2SI MAXSD MINSD DIVSD UCOMISD CVTSS2SD CVTSI2SD ADDSD CVTSD2SS SQRTSD MOVAPD CVTSD2SI ADDPD UNPCKHPD UNPCKLPD MULPD SUBPD XORPD ANDPD ORPD PSHUFD PUNPCKHQDQ ANDNPD CMPNLESD CMPLTSD DIVPD PSHUFLW PSRLDQ CVTTPS2DQ CVTDQ2PS CMPNLTSD CVTPS2DQ MOVUPD CMPEQPD MAXPD MOVHPD MOVLPD PMULUDQ CVTPS2PD CVTPD2PS CMPLESD SQRTPD MOVMSKPD CVTDQ2PD PSLLDQ PSHUFHW MOVNTDQ MOVDQ2Q MOVQ2DQ CMPLTPD CVTTPD2DQ CMPLEPD CMPNLEPD CMPNLTPD

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDDUP MOVSHDUP MOVSLDUP HADDPS LDDQU ADDSUBPS

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PSHUFB PABSD PALIGNR PHADDD PABSW PSIGNW PMULHRSW PMADDUBSW PSIGND PABSB PHADDW PHADDSW

SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

POPCNT

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VZEROUPPER VPERMILPS VBROADCASTSS VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VBROADCASTF128 VPERM2F128 VBROADCASTSD VPERMILPD VMASKMOVPS

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VPBROADCASTD VPERM2I128 VINSERTI128 VPERMQ VEXTRACTI128 VPBLENDD VPERMD VPBROADCASTB VPBROADCASTW VPERMPD VPERMPS VGATHERDPD VGATHERDPS VPBROADCASTQ VPGATHERDD VPSRAVD VPSLLVD VPGATHERQQ VPMASKMOVD

AVX Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-VNNI)

Used by default on supported hardware.

VPDPBUSD

FMA (FMA)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VFMADD231SS VFMADD213SS VFNMADD213SS VFMADD132PS VFMADD132SS VFMADD231PS VFNMADD132SS VFNMADD231SS VFNMADD132PS VFMSUB132PS VFMSUB231PS VFNMADD231PS VFMADD213PS VFMSUB132SS VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD213PS VFNMSUB132SS VFMSUB213PS VFNMSUB231SS VFMSUB213SS VFNMADD231PD VFMADD231PD VFMADD213PD VFMADDSUB213PS VFMSUBADD213PS VFMADDSUB231PS VFMADD213SD VFMADD132PD VFMADD231SD VFMADD132SD VFNMSUB231PS VFNMSUB213SS

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

Last automated analysis: 23 August 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libtbb.so.2, libutil.so.1, libpthread.so.0, libdl.so.2, libm.so.6, libosdGPU.so.3.6.0, libosdCPU.so.3.6.0, libX11.so.6, libXrender.so.1, libXxf86vm.so.1, libXfixes.so.3, libXi.so.6, libxkbcommon.so.0, libembree4.so.4, libsycl.so.7, libOpenImageIO.so.2.5, liboslcomp.so.1.13, liboslexec.so.1.13, liboslquery.so.1.13, liboslnoise.so.1.13, libOpenColorIO.so.2.3, libOpenImageDenoise.so.2, libMaterialXFormat.so.1, libMaterialXCore.so.1, libopenvdb.so.11.0, libIex.so.31, libOpenEXR.so.31, libOpenEXRCore.so.31, libIlmThread.so.31, libImath.so.30, librt.so.1, libc.so.6, libxcb.so.1, libXext.so.6, libSM.so.6, libICE.so.6, libGL.so.1, libMaterialXRender.so.1, libMaterialXGenGlsl.so.1, libMaterialXGenMsl.so.1, libMaterialXGenShader.so.1, libz.so.1, libXau.so.6, libXdmcp.so.6, libuuid.so.1, libbsd.so.0, libGLdispatch.so.0, libGLX.so.0, libmd.so.0.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M4

Compare kde plasma distros 2 Systems - 147 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-13-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
amd-9600x-blender-BMW27-pbo-bench-2024-12-21 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
amd-9600x-blender-BMW27-pbo-bench-2024-12-20 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
barcelona 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i5-13600K - ASRock B760M Pro RS/D4 - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Fedora Linux 41 - 6.12.4-200.fc41.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 47.2
amd-9600x-blender-BMW27-pbo-bench-2024-12-19 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
amd-9600x-blender-classroom-pbo-bench-2024-12-19 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
kzl-phoronix-blender-optix 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-10300H - HP 87AD v32.32 - Intel Comet Lake PCH cachyos rolling - 6.12.5-2-cachyos - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland
kzl-phoronix-blender-cuda 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-10300H - HP 87AD v32.32 - Intel Comet Lake PCH cachyos rolling - 6.12.5-2-cachyos - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland
amd-9600x-blender-bmw27-pbo-bench-2024-12-18-night 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
cpu-613rc3 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD Eng Sample 100-000000713-21_N - AMD BirmanPlus-KRK - AMD Device 1122 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.13.0-rc3 - GNOME Shell 46.0
amd-9600x-blender-bmw27-pbo-bench-2024-12-18-morning 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
Compare kde plasma distros 2 Systems - 104 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - Intel Alder Lake PCH openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241204 - 6.11.8-1-default - KDE Plasma 6.2.4
amd-9600x-blender-bmw27-pbo-bench-2024-12-18 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core - MSI PRO B650M-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.12.3-061203-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
Intel Arrow Lake Windows 11 1 System - 109 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z890 HERO - 2 x 16384MB 6400MHz Micron CP16G64C38U5B.M8D1 Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 26100 - 10.0.26100.2605 - 32.0.101.6325
bmw-mos1 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - MSI Creator TRX40 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0

9575F smoke 2 Systems - 116 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core - Supermicro Super Server H13SSL-N v1.01 - AMD 1Ah Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc7-linux-pm-next-phx - GNOME Shell 47.0
CCTA_MacMiniM4_Blend-Linux-namd_01 1 System - 20 Benchmark Results	Apple M4 - Apple Mac mini - 16GB macOS 15.0 - 24.0.0 - OpenCL 1.2
DDR5 Memory Cooling Performance For AMD EPYC Turin 2 Systems - 66 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core - Supermicro Super Server H13SSL-N v1.01 - AMD 1Ah Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc7-linux-pm-next-phx - GNOME Shell 47.0
new sun 3 Systems - 32 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core - Supermicro Super Server H13SSL-N v1.01 - AMD 1Ah Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc7-linux-pm-next-phx - GNOME Shell 47.0
dsat 2 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
new-sun 4 Systems - 94 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z890 HERO - Intel Device ae7f Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - GNOME Shell 47.0
ffff 3 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-rc6-phx - GNOME Shell 47.0
satty 2 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc7-phx-eraps - GNOME Shell 47.0
sunny 2 Systems - 82 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS Zenbook S 14 UX5406SA_UX5406SA UX5406SA v1.0 - Intel Device a87f Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc3-phx-aipt - GNOME Shell 47.0
sunny 2 Systems - 82 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS Zenbook S 14 UX5406SA_UX5406SA UX5406SA v1.0 - Intel Device a87f Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc3-phx-aipt - GNOME Shell 47.0
dsat 2 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
satty 5 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
x3d sun 2 Systems - 90 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core - ASRock X870E Taichi - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
CCTA_MacMiniM4_Blend-Linux-namd_01 2 Systems - 20 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment DRFXI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-45-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
satty 2 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.12.0-rc7-phx-eraps - GNOME Shell 47.0

Blender

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Supported Architectures

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Blender 4.3

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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