Stress-NG

Stress-NG is a Linux stress tool developed by Colin Ian King.

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

Project Site

github.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

4 June 2015

Last Updated

4 May 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

50 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 42 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Attr

Accolades

200k+ Downloads + 10k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

* 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 2 December 2024.

Revision History

pts/stress-ng-1.12.0 [View Source] Sat, 04 May 2024 20:28:43 GMT
Update against upstream per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/307 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/307

pts/stress-ng-1.11.0 [View Source] Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:02:27 GMT
Upate against 0.16.04 upstream.

pts/stress-ng-1.10.0 [View Source] Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:40:36 GMT
Pull in update https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/282 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/282

pts/stress-ng-1.9.0 [View Source] Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:32:17 GMT
Update against stress-ng-0.15.07 upstream for improved CPU scalability.

pts/stress-ng-1.8.0 [View Source] Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:38:28 GMT
Update against upstream from https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/274 but missing version bump and updating of SHA256/MD5 hashes, fixed. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/274

pts/stress-ng-1.7.0 [View Source] Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:35:31 GMT
Update against upstream via/from: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/271 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/271

pts/stress-ng-1.6.0 [View Source] Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:53:35 GMT
Update against v0.14.06 upstream, set thread count to -1 rather than 0 per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/251 Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/251

pts/stress-ng-1.5.1 [View Source] Fri, 06 May 2022 05:46:07 GMT
apparmor development files needed as a system dependency now for building stress-ng.

pts/stress-ng-1.5.0 [View Source] Thu, 05 May 2022 18:27:02 GMT
Update against stress-ng 0.14 upstrea. Rename RdRand option to x86_64 RdRand for future limiting/sorting.

pts/stress-ng-1.4.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:14:00 GMT
Update against v0.13.02 upstream to fix build problems with newer toolchains.

pts/stress-ng-1.3.1 [View Source] Sun, 17 May 2020 16:19:02 GMT
Stress-NG test profile works fine on macOS.

pts/stress-ng-1.3.0 [View Source] Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:56:16 GMT
Update against latest upstream.

pts/stress-ng-1.2.2 [View Source] Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:33:16 GMT
Update with FreeBSD support - https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/50

pts/stress-ng-1.2.1 [View Source] Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:07:01 GMT
Fix https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/6

pts/stress-ng-1.2.0 [View Source] Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:56:57 GMT
Update against upstream, host on PTS server to avoid broken mirror links

pts/stress-ng-1.1.0 [View Source] Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:57:25 GMT
Update stress-ng upstream as package of previous version seems to have changed.

pts/stress-ng-1.0.0 [View Source] Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:26:36 GMT
Initial stress-ng commit.

Suites Using This Test

Common Kernel Benchmarks

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Stress-NG 0.17.08

Test: CPU Stress

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 312 public results since 5 May 2024 with the latest data as of 29 November 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

Bogo Ops/s (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9734 112-Core

100th

496402 ^{+/- 1399}

2 x Intel Xeon 6780E

98th

387461 ^{+/- 4436}

2 x AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core

94th

342925 ^{+/- 402}

2 x AMD EPYC 9374F 32-Core

93rd

203311 ^{+/- 415}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6248R

83rd

83127 ^{+/- 144}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4

82nd

62707 ^{+/- 788}

Intel Core i9-14900K

80th

61425 ^{+/- 148}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

78th

57546 ^{+/- 1515}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 42375

AmpereOne 192-Core

75th

42374 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

74th

40919 ^{+/- 26}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118

72nd

37809 ^{+/- 247}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

71st

35121 ^{+/- 158}

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core

69th

32191 ^{+/- 453}

Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

67th

30421 ^{+/- 303}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

67th

29989 ^{+/- 961}

Intel Xeon E E-2488

66th

29794 ^{+/- 79}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

51st

14147 ^{+/- 91}

Median

50th

13616

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

49th

11834 ^{+/- 141}

Intel Core i7-8565U

41st

7688 ^{+/- 75}

Intel N97

36th

5269 ^{+/- 17}

Intel Core i5-8350U

31st

4243 ^{+/- 370}

Low-Tier

25th

< 2705

ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 12-Core

24th

2641 ^{+/- 135}

Intel Core i5-3320M

23rd

2387 ^{+/- 230}

Apple M1

22nd

2375 ^{+/- 1}

ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 8-Core

17th

1649 ^{+/- 163}

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 24-Core

12th

1090 ^{+/- 29}

ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core

10th

903 ^{+/- 100}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Stress-NG 0.17.08 - Test: CPU Stress) 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 0.4%.

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.

SUBSD MINSD CVTSI2SD MULSD MOVAPD ADDSD DIVSD COMISD MOVDQU MOVDQA PSRLDQ MOVD PSHUFD CVTSS2SD ANDPD UNPCKLPD MOVUPD SUBPD MULPD UNPCKHPD ADDPD SHUFPD UCOMISD CVTTSD2SI PUNPCKLQDQ MOVLPD DIVPD MOVNTI SQRTSD MAXSD CLFLUSH PADDQ CVTSD2SS ANDNPD ORPD MOVHPD MOVNTDQ XORPD PMULUDQ

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDDUP MOVSLDUP

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PALIGNR PSHUFB

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 VBROADCASTSD VBROADCASTSS VEXTRACTF128 VINSERTF128 VPERM2F128 VPERMILPD

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).

VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTD VPBROADCASTQ VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTB VPBROADCASTW VPERMQ VPERMD VINSERTI128 VPERMPD VPGATHERQQ

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

SERIALIZE (SERIALIZE)

Used by default on supported hardware.

SERIALIZE

WAITPKG / UMWAIT / TPAUSE (WAITPKG)

Used by default on supported hardware.

TPAUSE

Cache Line Write Back (CLWB)

Used by default on supported hardware.

CLWB

FMA (FMA)

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

VFMADD231SS VFMADD132SD VFMADD132SS VFNMADD132SS VFMADD231SD VFMSUB231SD VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD132SD VFMADD231PD VFMADD132PD VFMADD132PS VFMSUB132PD VFMSUB132SD VFMADD213SD VFNMADD231SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 25 June 2023

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libapparmor.so.1, libbsd.so.0, libcrypt.so.1, libEGL.so.1, libgbm.so.1, libGLESv2.so.2, libjpeg.so.8, libm.so.6, libmpfr.so.6, libsctp.so.1, libz.so.1, libc.so.6, libmd.so.0, libGLdispatch.so.0, libdrm.so.2, libwayland-server.so.0, libexpat.so.1, libgmp.so.10, libffi.so.8.

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)

RISC-V 64-bit

riscv64

SiFive RISC-V, Spacemit X60, rv64imafdc_zicntr_zicsr_zifencei_zihpm_xtheadvector, rv64imafdch_zicsr_zifencei_zba_zbb_sscofpmf, rv64imafdcvsu

m68k

(Many Processors)

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

Loongson-3A5000

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 24-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 12-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, ARMv8 rev 0, ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core, AmpereOne 192-Core, Apple, Apple M1, Qualcomm, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

minisforum 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment EliteMini HPBSD v1.0 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
minisforum 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment EliteMini HPBSD v1.0 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
test-stress-ng-cpu 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASRock B650 Steel Legend WiFi - AMD Device 14d8 openSUSE 15.6 - 6.4.0-150600.23.25-default - Enlightenment
Libreboot: stress-ng 4 Systems - 47 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD Opteron 4386 - ASUS KCMA-D8 v1.0 - AMD RD890 + SB7x0 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-48-generic - X Server
results 1 System - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel N100 - GMKtec - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-27-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
Libreboot: stress-ng 3 Systems - 47 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD Opteron 4386 - ASUS KCMA-D8 v1.0 - AMD RD890 + SB7x0 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-48-generic - X Server
clear-linux-i9-12900-6.11.6-1477.native 1 System - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900 - MSI PRO Z690-A - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Clear Linux OS 42660 - 6.11.6-1477.native - GNOME Shell 47.1
fedm1pro2 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	Apple - Apple MacBook Pro - Apple Silicon Fedora 41 - 6.11.8-400.asahi.fc41.aarch64+16k - KDE Plasma 6.2.3
sfive 1 System - 30 Benchmark Results	rv64imafdch_zicsr_zifencei_zba_zbb_sscofpmf - SiFive HiFive Premier P550 - 16GB Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.6.21-9-premier - GNOME Shell 46.0
sfive 1 System - 30 Benchmark Results	rv64imafdch_zicsr_zifencei_zba_zbb_sscofpmf - SiFive HiFive Premier P550 - 16GB Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.6.21-9-premier - GNOME Shell 46.0
asahi3 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - Apple Silicon Fedora 41 - 6.11.8-400.asahi.fc41.aarch64+16k - KDE Plasma 6.2.3
Libreboot: stress-ng 2 Systems - 47 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD Opteron 6380 - ASUS KGPE-D16 v1.0 - AMD RD890 + SB7x0 Debian 13 - 6.11.5-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.7
Libreboot: stress-ng 1 System - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-4790K - Dell OptiPlex 7020/9020 SFF [OptiPlex v1.0] - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-48-generic - X Server
1 2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 - MACHINIST X99 PR9 - Intel Xeon E7 v3 Fedora 41 - 6.11.7-300.fc41.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 47.1
stress-ng-crypto-rasp-milvus-3 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 - Broadcom BCM2711 Debian 11 - 6.1.21-v8+ - GCC 10.2.1 20210110 + Clang 11.0.1-2

starfive-5150-2 1 System - 46 Benchmark Results	SiFive RISC-V - StarFive VisionFive V2 - 4096MB Debian unstable - 5.15.0-starfive - X Server
Intel Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest Clear Linux Performance 4 Systems - 305 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon 6780E - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D55Q-2U S7Q-MB-MPS-MDP - Intel Ice Lake IEH Clear Linux OS 41900 - 6.9.5-1441.native - GCC 14.1.1 20240618 releases
FreeBSD 14.1 vs. Linux vs. BSD Benchmarks 5 Systems - 84 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major thelio-major-r5 - AMD [AMD] FreeBSD - 14.1-RELEASE - Clang 18.1.5
FreeBSD 14.1 Benchmarks On AMD Threadripper 2 Systems - 107 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major thelio-major-r5 - AMD [AMD] FreeBSD - 14.0-RELEASE - Clang 16.0.6
EPYC 9734 2P AMD Linux 3 Systems - 111 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9734 112-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-22-generic - GCC 13.2.0
FreeBSD 14.1 Benchmarks 2 Systems - 114 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major thelio-major-r5 - AMD [AMD] DragonFly - 6.4-RELEASE - GCC 8.3
haeglnx8c 6 Systems - 31 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A78E - EDK II 4.1-33958178 - 8GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.120-tegra - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
20240513 3 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A78E - EDK II r35.3.1-63e71c9-dirty - 62GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.104-tegra - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
new core ultra 2 Systems - 55 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 165U - LENOVO ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 21MLCTO1WW - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-28-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
20240621 4 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A78E - NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit - 30GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.136-tegra - GNOME Shell 42.9
results 3 Systems - 797 Benchmark Results
20240703 3 Systems - 20 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A78E - NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit - 30GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.136-tegra - GNOME Shell 42.9
20240621 Featured File-System Comparison	ARMv8 Cortex-A78E - NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit - 30GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.136-tegra - GNOME Shell 42.9
june juny 3 Systems - 91 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
FreeBSD 14.1 Benchmarks 4 Systems - 92 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major thelio-major-r5 - AMD [AMD] FreeBSD - 14.1-RELEASE - Clang 18.1.5

Stress-NG

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Stress-NG 0.17.08

Test: CPU Stress

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results