Hacker News with Generative AI: Benchmarks

A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics? (duckdb.org)
TL;DR: We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?

Data Analytics, Distributed Systems, Benchmarks, Performance, Hardware

210 points by andreasha 4 days ago | 105 comments

AMD EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P (phoronix.com)
With today's announcement of the AMD EPYC 4005P "Grado" entry-level server processors, up for review today are the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-end Zen 5 processors for budget server builds and basic bare metal server hosting.

AMD, Server Processors, Benchmarks, Hardware

6 points by rbanffy 10 days ago | 0 comments

Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS and XFS File-System Performance on Linux 6.15 (phoronix.com)
With the copy-on-write Bcachefs file-system considering its on-disk format now "soft frozen" and nearing the point of potentially removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag on it, a number of Phoronix readers have been requesting some fresh benchmarks of this open-source file-system. For your viewing pleasure today are some fresh benchmarks of Bcachefs and other file-systems atop the Linux 6.15 kernel being released as stable later this month. On the benchmarking block today are Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS in-tree file-systems.

Linux, File Systems, Benchmarks, Performance, Open Source

8 points by throwaway1482 13 days ago | 0 comments

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. Intel (phoronix.com)
June 2024 marked the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite to much initial fanfare for finally some compelling ARM laptop designs.

Benchmarks, Linux, Hardware, ARM, Performance

12 points by bomkarram 14 days ago | 2 comments

OSUniverse: Building a Better OSWorld (ycombinator.com)
Hey all,<p>We are happy to release a new benchmark for computer use.

Operating Systems, Benchmarks, Software

5 points by mountainriver 15 days ago | 0 comments

The Leaderboard Illusion (arxiv.org)
Measuring progress is fundamental to the advancement of any scientific field. As benchmarks play an increasingly central role, they also grow more susceptible to distortion.

Science, Benchmarks, Research

184 points by pongogogo 23 days ago | 51 comments

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 42 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 47 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 60 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 61 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 63 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 74 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 81 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 88 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 94 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 95 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 97 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 100 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 100 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 101 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 115 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 138 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 162 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 163 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 165 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 168 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 173 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 176 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 178 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 195 days ago | 0 comments