Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library.
To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark smallpt.
OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 6,305 public results since 7 December 2018 with the latest data as of 19 May 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.
Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples) has an average run-time of 4 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 1%.
Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does 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 libm.so.6, libgomp.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 - 1 Benchmark Result |
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - MSI B550-A PRO - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.8.9-arch1-2 - KDE Plasma 6.0.4 |
4 Systems - 84 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-14400F - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
2 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results |
Unknown - Yytek 301-0059 - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge Gentoo 2.15 - 6.9.0-loongarch - KDE Plasma 5.27.11 |
4 Systems - 86 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core - ASRock B650 Pro RS - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING - Intel 8th Gen Core CentOS Linux 7 - 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 - nouveau |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Xeon Silver 4210R - Dell 060K5C - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING - Intel 8th Gen Core CentOS Linux 7 - 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 - nouveau |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i5-1030NG7 - Oracle VirtualBox v1.2 - 2048MB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.5.0-35-generic - GCC 9.4.0 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
ARMv8 - Parallels ARM Virtual Machine v0.1 - 1 x 4 GB DRAM Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-76-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Xeon - Kakao Cloud OpenStack Compute - Intel 82G33 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-100-generic - 1.3.255 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING - 2 x 16384 MB DDR4-2400MT CentOS Linux 7 - 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 - nouveau |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5115 - ASUS RS540-E9-RS36-E Z11PR-D16 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Rocky Linux 9.3 - 5.15.158-1.el7.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218 |
1 System - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING - 2 x 16384 MB DDR4-2400MT CentOS Linux 7 - 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 - nouveau |
2 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result |
Intel Core i7-1255U - 20GB - 4 x 275GB Virtual Disk CentOS Linux 7 - 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 - GCC 4.8.5 20150623 |
2 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3600 6-Core - GIGABYTE S-101-GMC12-R3600 MC12-LE0-00 v01000100 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GCC 13.2.0 |
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 |
7 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A53 - Libre Board ALL-H3-CC H5 - 2048MB Raspbian 9.6 - 4.18.0-rc3-gfc36def997cf-dirty - X Server 1.19.2 |
11 Systems - 217 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-10600K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
Featured Processor Comparison |
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1 |
8 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A57 - jetson-nano - 4096MB Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.9.140-tegra - Unity 7.5.0 |
2 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results |
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 400 Rev 1.0 - Broadcom BCM2711 Debian 11 - 5.10.92-v8+ - LXDE |
Featured Processor Comparison |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core - MSI Creator TRX40 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-23-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1 |
4 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i7-10700T - Insyde CometLake TBD by OEM - Intel FreeBSD - 12.2-RELEASE - Clang 10.0.1 |
5 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results |
Intel Celeron N3160 - SECO UDOO x86 - Intel Atom Ubuntu 18.04 - 5.3.0-46-generic - modesetting 1.19.6 |
8 Systems - 439 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i5-11600K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - Intel Device 43ef Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3 |
2 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results |
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Device 1480 Clear Linux OS 31470 - 5.3.8-854.native - GNOME Shell 3.34.1 |
8 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8-2T - AMD Family 17h Fedora 29 - 4.20.8-200.fc29.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.30.2 |
3 Systems - 143 Benchmark Results |
AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1 |
12 Systems - 229 Benchmark Results |
Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4 |
Featured Processor Comparison |
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Device 1480 Ubuntu 18.04 - 5.3.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.4 |