Hacker News with Generative AI: Benchmarks

Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish (varnish-software.com)
A little bit about compute in Varnish Cache and some Deno JS benchmarksHey all. I recently wrote about TinyKVM, a sandbox with native performance. This time I want to write about how you can try it out as a compute framework in Varnish Cache.
Varnish, Deno, JavaScript, Performance, Benchmarks
100 points by perbu 15 days ago | 28 comments
Faster Shuffling in Go with Batching (lemire.me)
Go’s rand.Shuffle is a solid baseline, but batching random integer generation can make it much faster. By generating multiple random numbers from a single 64-bit value, we can boost efficiency—by over 2x in our benchmarks.
Go, Programming, Performance Optimization, Benchmarks
3 points by ingve 19 days ago | 0 comments
Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025 (arcprize.org)
Good AGI benchmarks act as useful progress indicators. Better AGI benchmarks clearly discern capabilities. The best AGI benchmarks do all this and actively inspire research and guide innovation.
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Benchmarks, Prizes
188 points by gkamradt 32 days ago | 101 comments
Open-source Rust database tops JSONBench using DataFusion (greptime.com)
GreptimeDB Takes on the Billion-JSON-Document Challenge - Outperforms ClickHouse, VictoriaLogs, and Competitors
Databases, Rust, Benchmarks, Open Source
13 points by killme2008 33 days ago | 5 comments
MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020) (sirupsen.com)
How many transactions (‘writes’) per second is MySQL capable of?
MySQL, Databases, Performance, Benchmarks
121 points by jcartw 35 days ago | 52 comments
Apple M3 Ultra SoC: Disappointing CPU Benchmark Result Surfaces (techpowerup.com)
Just recently, Apple somewhat stunned the industry with the introduction of its refreshed Mac Studio with the M4 Max and M3 Ultra SoCs.
Apple, Processors, Benchmarks, Technology, Hardware
5 points by speckx 47 days ago | 1 comments
How the Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved for RISC-V over the Last 4 Years (phoronix.com)
SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference.
Linux, RISC-V, Performance, Hardware, Benchmarks
5 points by mfiguiere 54 days ago | 0 comments
Intel Xeon 6700P and 6500P Granite Rapids-SP for the Masses Initial Benchmarks (servethehome.com)
This Intel Xeon 6 series has been a launch we have been waiting on for around three quarters. Today, we have the launch of the Intel Xeon 6700P and Xeon 6500P series. These are the smaller Socket E2 (LGA4710-2) processors compared to the big socket Intel Xeon 6900P series. At the same time, they are not necessarily “lower-end” as they can scale to 4 sockets, eight sockets and beyond.
Hardware, Processors, Intel, Benchmarks, Servers
8 points by ksec 60 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks (phoronix.com)
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you.
Nvidia, Linux, Graphics Cards, Benchmarks, GPU Compute
21 points by shikharbhardwaj 67 days ago | 8 comments
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance (phoronix.com)
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.
Graphics Cards, Performance, Gaming, Linux, Benchmarks
28 points by mfiguiere 67 days ago | 15 comments
Can We Trust AI Benchmarks? A Review of Current Issues in AI Evaluation (arxiv.org)
Quantitative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benchmarks have emerged as fundamental tools for evaluating the performance, capability, and safety of AI models and systems.
Artificial Intelligence, Evaluation, Benchmarks, Research
23 points by rntn 70 days ago | 4 comments
The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time (cpubenchmark.net)
Over 1,000,000 CPUs Benchmarked
Hardware, Performance, Trends, Computer Technology, Benchmarks
311 points by doener 72 days ago | 238 comments
Linux 6.13 Performance for 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison (phoronix.com)
Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware.
Linux, Operating Systems, Performance, Benchmarks, Hardware
3 points by LorenDB 72 days ago | 1 comments
The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks (tomshardware.com)
Hardware, Benchmarks, Performance
149 points by LorenDB 73 days ago | 63 comments
VictoriaLogs Beats Elasticsearch, MongoDB and PostgreSQL in ClickBench (ycombinator.com)
VictoriaLogs Beats Elasticsearch, MongoDB and PostgreSQL in ClickBench
Databases, Benchmarks, Performance, Open Source, Time Series
13 points by valyala 87 days ago | 1 comments
Killed by LLM (r0bk.github.io)
A memorial to the benchmarks that defined—and were defeated by—AI progress
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Benchmarks
218 points by yz-exodao 110 days ago | 95 comments
Fair Go vs. Elixir Benchmarks (github.com/antonputra)
The code previously used Jason.encode! but Jason.encode_to_iodata! should be preferred over IO devices. This should increase performance and reduce memory usage. This is what frameworks such as a Phoenix would have used by default
Programming, Elixir, Performance Optimization, Benchmarks, Web Frameworks
13 points by ahamez 135 days ago | 0 comments
Intel Compute Runtime 24.45 vs. ROCm 6.3 vs. Nvidia R565 Linux GPU Benchmarks (phoronix.com)
Complementing yesterday's fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of mid-range Intel Arc Graphics "Alchemist" vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7000 series cards ahead of the upcoming Battlemage availability, today's article is providing a fresh look at the latest Intel Compute Runtime performance for Level Zero / OpenCL on current-gen Intel discrete graphics compared to mid-range AMD Radeon GPUs on ROCm 6.3 and similar NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Ada graphics cards on the R565 driver.
Linux, Graphics Cards, Benchmarks, Performance, OpenCL
8 points by rbanffy 136 days ago | 0 comments
Intel Arc B580 trades blows with the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 in early benchmarks (tomshardware.com)
Graphics Cards, Benchmarks, Hardware, Gaming
10 points by LorenDB 137 days ago | 9 comments
1B Nested Loop Iterations (benjdd.com)
Timings taken via hyperfine on an M3 Macbook pro with 16 gb RAM. Input value of 40 given to each.
Programming, Optimization, Performance, Benchmarks
7 points by robomartin 140 days ago | 1 comments
OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks (orioledb.com)
OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQL which uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system.
Databases, PostgreSQL, Benchmarks, New Releases
140 points by oliverrice 146 days ago | 15 comments
Microbenchmarks Are Experiments (mrale.ph)
Benchmarks are not numerology. Their results are not a divine revelation. Benchmarks are experiments. Their results are meaningless without interpretation and validation.
Software, Benchmarks, Experimentation
57 points by zdw 148 days ago | 12 comments
1B nested loop iterations (benjdd.com)
Ran each three times and used the lowest timing for each.
Performance Optimization, Programming, Benchmarks
100 points by behnamoh 150 days ago | 101 comments
Google Axion ARM CPU (C4A) vs. AWS Graviton4, Performance benchmark (phoronix.com)
Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors.
Cloud Computing, Hardware, Benchmarks, Performance, Google
5 points by alas44 168 days ago | 0 comments
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache (phoronix.com)
Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under Ubuntu Linux compared to a variety of other Intel Core and AMD Ryzen desktop processors.
AMD Ryzen, CPUs, Linux, Benchmarks, Performance
150 points by mfiguiere 171 days ago | 114 comments
Apple's M4 Max is the single-core performance king in Geekbench 6 (tomshardware.com)
Apple, Benchmarks, CPUs, Hardware, Performance
13 points by doener 173 days ago | 0 comments
Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked (macrumors.com)
The first Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the M4 Pro chip surfaced today. Impressively, the results that are available so far show that the highest-end M4 Pro chip is faster than the highest-end M2 Ultra chip in terms of peak multi-core CPU performance.
Hardware, Benchmarks, Apple, Mac
98 points by bontoJR 176 days ago | 53 comments
Benchmarks of Google's Axion Arm-Based CPU (phoronix.com)
Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types.
Google Cloud, Hardware, Benchmarks, CPU, Arm
49 points by mfiguiere 177 days ago | 12 comments
Encore.ts: A New Type of Framework (encore.dev)
We recently published performance benchmarks showing how Encore.ts achieves 9x request throughput compared to Express.js, and 2x compared to Fastify.
JavaScript, Web Development, Frameworks, Performance, Benchmarks
8 points by bx376 180 days ago | 1 comments
AMD Zen 5 Epyc Turin dominates previous Zen 4, Intel by 40% (phoronix.com)
Across more than 140 benchmarks the AMD EPYC 9005 series processors were delivering great performance, power efficiency, and value. Those interested can see all 140 benchmarks via this result file.
AMD, Processors, Benchmarks, Performance, Intel
6 points by highfrequency 197 days ago | 0 comments