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 11,463 public results since 7 February 2018 with the latest data as of 28 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 - 21 Benchmark Results |
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Dell Precision Tower 7810 [0KJCC5] - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 20 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core - MSI X399 SLI PLUS - AMD 17h Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 15 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core 2 6700 - Gigabyte G41M-Combo - Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 255 Benchmark Results |
Apple M4 - Apple Mac mini - 16GB macOS 15.0 - 24.0.0 - OpenCL 1.2 |
1 System - 255 Benchmark Results |
Apple M4 Pro - Apple Mac mini - 24GB macOS 15.2 - 24.2.0 - OpenCL 1.2 |
1 System - 17 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 - Gigabyte G41M-Combo - Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 17 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 - Gigabyte G41M-Combo - Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 20 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 - Gigabyte G41M-Combo - Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
8 Systems - 21 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - Gigabyte AB350M-DS3H V2-CF - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-13-generic - GNOME Shell 47.0 |
1 System - 19 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 - Gigabyte G41M-Combo - Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
1 System - 19 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - Gigabyte G41M-Combo - Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7 Debian 12 - 6.1.0-29-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
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 N97 - HARDKERNEL ODROID-H4 v1.0 - Intel Device 54ef Debian 12 - 6.1.0-20-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0 |
19 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-2500S - American Megatrends C69VVR10 - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-25-amd64 - 1.0.2 |
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 |
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 - 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 |
3 Systems - 109 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-27-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2 |
7 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A53 - Firefly ROC-RK3328-CC - 2048MB Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.4.114 - X Server 1.18.4 |
4 Systems - 55 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U - MOTILE PF4PU1F - AMD Device 15d0 Ubuntu 18.04 - 5.3.0-28-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.4 |
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 |
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20201002-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
20 Systems - 43 Benchmark Results |
ARMv7 rev 4 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 - 927MB Raspbian 9.4 - 4.14.62-v7+ - LXDE |
2 Systems - 3 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-4790 - ASUS Z97-A-USB31 - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.15.0-22-generic - KDE Plasma 5.12.6 |
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 - 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 |
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 |
16 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2 |