LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format.
To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark encode-mp3.
OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 11,458 public results since 7 February 2018 with the latest data as of 15 January 2025.
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.
Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 - WAV To MP3) has an average run-time of 2 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 0.5%.
No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.
Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.
This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libtinfo.so.6, libm.so.6, libmvec.so.1, libc.so.6.
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.
1 System - 8 Benchmark Results |
AMD Athlon - VIA VT8366 - VIA VT8366 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-15-686 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-11700F - ASUS ROG STRIX B560-I GAMING WIFI - Intel Device 43ef Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-130-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i3-4010U - Intel D34010WYK - Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-23-amd64 - 1.2.145 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel N100 - GMKtec - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE - HP 872C - AMD Renoir Debian 12 - 6.1.0-26-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i3-4130T - LENOVO SHARKBAY - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-21-amd64 - 1.2.145 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i3-4130T - LENOVO SHARKBAY - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-21-amd64 - 1.2.145 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Celeron G540 - American Megatrends C69VVR10 - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-23-amd64 - 1.0.2 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel N100 - (5.27 BIOS) - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Celeron G540 - American Megatrends C69VVR10 - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-23-amd64 - 1.0.2 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-6700T - Dell OptiPlex 7040 [096JG8] - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-21-amd64 - 1.2.145 |
18 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel N150 - AZW EQ - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-28-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
18 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i3-4130T - LENOVO SHARKBAY - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-21-amd64 - 1.2.145 |
18 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel N100 - (5.27 BIOS) - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
18 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel N100 - GMKtec - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 64 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS UX5406SA - 8 x 2048MB 8533MHz Samsung Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 26100 - 10.0.26100.1742 - 32.0.101.5730 |
3 Systems - 268 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-2520M - HP 161C - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.18.0-20-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.3 |
5 Systems - 25 Benchmark Results |
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 - MSI MS-7998 1.0 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 FreeBSD - 12.0-RELEASE - Clang 6.0.1 |
3 Systems - 109 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework FRANMZCP07 - 2 x 8192MB 5600MHz A-DATA AD5S56008G-B Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3296 - 31.0.22024.15004 |
7 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
ARMv7 rev 3 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 - 4096MB Raspbian 10 - 4.19.50-v7l+ - LXDE 0.10.0 |
4 Systems - 55 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U - MOTILE PF4PU1F - AMD Raven Fedora 31 - 5.4.15-200.fc31.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.34.3 |
2 Systems - 21 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A73 - Hardkernel ODROID-N2Plus - 4096MB Debian - 6.0.8-meson64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
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Intel Core i9-9900K - ASUS PRIME Q370M-C - Intel Cannon Lake PCH CentOS Linux 7 - 4.14.35-2025.400.9.el7uek.x86_64 - GCC 4.8.5 20150623 |
2 Systems - 535 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Device 34ef Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20201003-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
20 Systems - 43 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 rev 3 - quill - 8192MB Ubuntu 16.04 - 4.4.38-tegra - Unity 7.4.5 |
2 Systems - 3 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-8950HK - Dell 0FP2W2 - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM Ubuntu 18.10 - 4.18.0-8-generic - GNOME Shell 3.30.0 |
14 Systems - 36 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - Amazon EC2 a1.2xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.15.0-1028-aws - GCC 7.3.0 |
3 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results |
MIPS P5600 V3.0 FPU V2.0 - Baikal-T1 BFK3 evaluation board - 2048MB Debian 9.3 - 4.4.100-bfk3 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516 + Clang 3.8.1-24 + LLVM 3.8.1 |
3 Systems - 79 Benchmark Results |
AMD Eng Sample - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - 4 x 32768 MB 3000MHz CMK64GX4M2D3000C16 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19042 - 10.0 - 27.20.1034.6 |
16 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2 |