Info TOP 20 of the World's Most Powerful CPU Cores - IPC/PPC comparison

Richie Rich · May 15, 2020

Added cores:

A53 - little core used in some low-end smartphones in 8-core config (Snapdragon 450)
A55 - used as little core in every modern Android SoC
A72 - "high" end Cortex core used in Snapdragon 625 or Raspberry Pi 4
A73 - "high" end Cortex core
A75 - "high" end Cortex core
Bulldozer - infamous AMD core

Geekbench 5.1 PPC chart 6/23/2020:

Pos	Man	CPU	Core	Year	ISA	GB5 Score	GHz	PPC (score/GHz)	Relative to 9900K	Relative to Zen3
1	Nuvia	(Est.)	Phoenix (Est.)	2021	ARMv9.0	2001	3.00	667.00	241.0%	194.1%
2	Apple	A15 (est.)	(Est.)	2021	ARMv9.0	1925	3.00	641.70	231.8%	186.8%
3	Apple	A14 (est.)	Firestorm	2020	ARMv8.6	1562	2.80	558.00	201.6%	162.4%
4	Apple	A13	Lightning	2019	ARMv8.4	1332	2.65	502.64	181.6%	146.3%
5	Apple	A12	Vortex	2018	ARMv8.3	1116	2.53	441.11	159.4%	128.4%
6	ARM Cortex	V1 (est.)	Zeus	2020	ARMv8.6	1287	3.00	428.87	154.9%	124.8%
7	ARM Cortex	N2 (est.)	Perseus	2021	ARMv9.0	1201	3.00	400.28	144.6%	116.5%
8	Apple	A11	Monsoon	2017	ARMv8.2	933	2.39	390.38	141.0%	113.6%
9	Intel	(Est.)	Golden Cove (Est.)	2021	x86-64	1780	4.60	386.98	139.8%	112.6%
10	ARM Cortex	X1	Hera	2020	ARMv8.2	1115	3.00	371.69	134.3%	108.2%
11	AMD	5900X (Est.)	Zen 3 (Est.)	2020	x86-64	1683	4.90	343.57	124.1%	100.0%
12	Apple	A10	Hurricane	2016	ARMv8.1	770	2.34	329.06	118.9%	95.8%
13	Intel	1065G7	Icelake	2019	x86-64	1252	3.90	321.03	116.0%	93.4%
14	ARM Cortex	A78	Hercules	2020	ARMv8.2	918	3.00	305.93	110.5%	89.0%
15	Apple	A9	Twister	2015	ARMv8.0	564	1.85	304.86	110.1%	88.7%
16	AMD	3950X	Zen 2	2019	x86-64	1317	4.60	286.30	103.4%	83.3%
17	ARM Cortex	A77	Deimos	2019	ARMv8.2	812	2.84	285.92	103.3%	83.2%
18	Intel	9900K	Coffee LakeR	2018	x86-64	1384	5.00	276.80	100.0%	80.6%
19	Intel	10900K	Comet Lake	2020	x86-64	1465	5.30	276.42	99.9%	80.5%
20	Intel	6700K	Skylake	2015	x86-64	1032	4.00	258.00	93.2%	75.1%
21	ARM Cortex	A76	Enyo	2018	ARMv8.2	720	2.84	253.52	91.6%	73.8%
22	Intel	4770K	Haswell	2013	x86-64	966	3.90	247.69	89.5%	72.1%
23	AMD	1800X	Zen 1	2017	x86-64	935	3.90	239.74	86.6%	69.8%
24	Apple	A13	Thunder	2019	ARMv8.4	400	1.73	231.25	83.5%	67.3%
25	Apple	A8	Typhoon	2014	ARMv8.0	323	1.40	230.71	83.4%	67.2%
26	Intel	3770K	Ivy Bridge	2012	x86-64	764	3.50	218.29	78.9%	63.5%
27	Apple	A7	Cyclone	2013	ARMv8.0	270	1.30	207.69	75.0%	60.5%
28	Intel	2700K	Sandy Bridge	2011	x86-64	723	3.50	206.57	74.6%	60.1%
29	ARM Cortex	A75	Prometheus	2017	ARMv8.2	505	2.80	180.36	65.2%	52.5%
30	ARM Cortex	A73	Artemis	2016	ARMv8.0	380	2.45	155.10	56.0%	45.1%
31	ARM Cortex	A72	Maya	2015	ARMv8.0	259	1.80	143.89	52.0%	41.9%
32	Intel	E6600	Core2	2006	x86-64	338	2.40	140.83	50.9%	41.0%
33	AMD	FX-8350	BD	2011	x86-64	566	4.20	134.76	48.7%	39.2%
34	AMD	Phenom 965 BE	K10.5	2006	x86-64	496	3.70	134.05	48.4%	39.0%
35	ARM Cortex	A57 (est.)	Atlas	0	ARMv8.0	222	1.80	123.33	44.6%	35.9%
36	ARM Cortex	A15 (est.)	Eagle	0	ARMv7 32-bit	188	1.80	104.65	37.8%	30.5%
37	AMD	Athlon 64 X2 3800+	K8	2005	x86-64	207	2.00	103.50	37.4%	30.1%
38	ARM Cortex	A17 (est.)		0	ARMv7 32-bit	182	1.80	100.91	36.5%	29.4%
39	ARM Cortex	A55	Ananke	2017	ARMv8.2	155	1.60	96.88	35.0%	28.2%
40	ARM Cortex	A53	Apollo	2012	ARMv8.0	148	1.80	82.22	29.7%	23.9%
41	Intel	Pentium D	P4	2005	x86-64	228	3.40	67.06	24.2%	19.5%
42	ARM Cortex	A7 (est.)	Kingfisher	0	ARMv7 32-bit	101	1.80	56.06	20.3%	16.3%

TOP 10 - Performance Per Area comparison at ISO-clock (PPA/GHz)

Copied from locked thread. They try to avoid people to see this comparison how x86 is so bad.[/B]

Pos	Man	CPU	Core	Core Area mm2	Year	ISA	SPEC PPA/Ghz	Relative
1	ARM Cortex	A78	Hercules	1.33	2020	ARMv8	9.41	100.0%
2	ARM Cortex	A77	Deimos	1.40	2019	ARMv8	8.36	88.8%
3	ARM Cortex	A76	Enyo	1.20	2018	ARMv8	7.82	83.1%
4	ARM Cortex	X1	Hera	2.11	2020	ARMv8	7.24	76.9%
5	Apple	A12	Vortex	4.03	2018	ARMv8	4.44	47.2%
6	Apple	A13	Lightning	4.53	2019	ARMv8	4.40	46.7%
7	AMD	3950X	Zen 2	3.60	2019	x86-64	3.02	32.1%

It's impressive how fast are evolving the generic Cortex cores:

A72 (2015) which can be found in most SBC has 1/3 of IPC of new Cortex X1 - They trippled IPC in just 5 years.
A73 and A75 (2017) which is inside majority of Android smart phones today has 1/2 IPC of new Cortex X1 - They doubled IPC in 3 years.

Comparison how x86 vs. Cortex cores:

A75 (2017) compared to Zen1 (2017) is loosing massive -34% PPC to x86. As expected.
A77 (2019) compared to Zen2 (2018) closed the gap and is equal in PPC. Surprising. Cortex cores caught x86 cores.
X1 (2020) is another +30% IPC over A77. Zen3 need to bring 30% IPC jump to stay on par with X1.

Comparison to Apple cores:

AMD's Zen2 core is slower than Apple's A9 from 2015.... so AMD is 4 years behind Apple
Intel's Sunny Cove core in Ice Lake is slower than Apple's A10 from 2016... so Intel is 3 years behind Apple
Cortex A77 core is slower than Apple's A9 from 2015.... but
New Cortex X1 core is slower than Apple's A11 from 2017 so ARM LLC is 3 years behind Apple and getting closer

GeekBench5.1 comparison from 6/22/2020:

added Cortex X1 and A78 performance projections from Andrei here
2020 awaiting new Apple A14 Firestorm core and Zen3 core

Updated:

EDIT:
Please note to stop endless discussion about PPC frequency scaling: To have fair and clean comparison I will use only the top (high clocked) version from each core as representation for top performance.

beginner99 · May 15, 2020

Can I make a 100-wide CPU and run it at 1 mhz and then calculate the ghz score and it counts?

Gideon · May 15, 2020

You should probably add *in geekbench* to the title.

coercitiv · May 15, 2020

We need 4 instances of this thread to maximize read & reply throughput.

DrMrLordX · May 15, 2020

coercitiv said:
We need 4 instances of this thread to maximize read & reply throughput.

Nah let's go 7-wide.

btw lulz at the 1800x being in the top 10.

Richie Rich · May 15, 2020

Gideon said:
You should probably add *in geekbench* to the title.

SPECint2006 comparison:

Pos	Man	CPU	Core	Year	ISA	SPECint2006 Score	GHz	PPC (score/GHz)	Relative
1	Apple	A13	Lightning	2019	ARMv8	52,82	2,65	19,93	100%
2	Apple	A12	Vortex	2018	ARMv8	45,32	2,53	17,91	90%
3	Apple	A11	Monsoon	2017	ARMv8	36,80	2,39	15,40	77%
4	Apple	A10	Hurricane	2016	ARMv8	29,35	2,34	12,54	63%
5	Intel	1065G7	Icelake	2019	x86-64	47,70	3,90	12,23	61%
6	ARM Cortex	A77	Deimos	2019	ARMv8	33,32	2,84	11,73	59%
7	Apple	A9	Twister	2015	ARMv8	21,49	1,85	11,61	58%
8	AMD	3950X	Zen 2	2019	x86-64	50,02	4,60	10,87	55%
9	Intel	9900K	Skylake	2018	x86-64	54,28	5,00	10,86	54%
10	ARM Cortex	A76	Enyo	2018	ARMv8	26,65	2,84	9,38	47%

DrMrLordX · May 15, 2020

This thread delivers.

Thunder 57 · May 15, 2020

The fact that a P4 shows up on your PPC list should immediately disqualify the results. Doesn't matter though. Based on the replies no one is taking you seriously. Besides, you don't provide any analysis or commentary. You basically just show up and say "Apple good, others suck!".

Hey, I don't see my Zen+ on there. I should build a P4 or K8 system stat!

Hayabusa Rider · May 15, 2020

Ooh, let's see how the iphone encodes compared to my 3700x! It will crush my system!

coercitiv · May 15, 2020

@Richie Rich

Can you please add EPYC 7702P to the comparison? With a score of 1075 @ 3.35Ghz it yields a PPC of 320.9, just shy of Ice Lake.

And while you're at it, can you also add my i7 8700 to the TOP 20 of the World's Most Powerful CPU cores? I ran it straight at 1Ghz so you don't have to normalize clocks anymore. It's 290 PPC, the CFL Refresh wasn't really as good as the original. THANK YOU!

DrMrLordX · May 15, 2020

Hayabusa Rider said:
Ooh, let's see how the iphone encodes compared to my 3700x! It will crush my system!

It might, depending on whether or not the encoding process can use fixed-function hardware.

coercitiv · May 15, 2020

Also a brand new CPU from Intel - 1153 @ 3.2GHz, that's 360 PPC.

This PPC World Top changes by the minute!

Richie Rich · May 15, 2020

coercitiv said:
@Richie Rich

Can you please add EPYC 7702P to the comparison? With a score of 1075 @ 3.35Ghz it yields a PPC of 320.9, just shy of Ice Lake.

And while you're at it, can you also add my i7 8700 to the TOP 20 of the World's Most Powerful CPU cores? I ran it straight at 1Ghz so you don't have to normalize clocks anymore. It's 290 PPC, the CFL Refresh wasn't really as good as the original. THANK YOU!

290 vs. 276 is 5% difference due to frequency scaling 1GHz vs. 5GHz. That's pretty small hit.
I will not put every core with at multiple frequencies. That would be a big mess. It's clear that clock scaling matters in terms of IPC. That's why I keep single sample for each core (always using best ST performance version w/ max clocks).

- That's why EPYC 7702 doesn't make a sense to add as there is already Zen2 3950X with much higher ST performance.
- Later I will add Nehalem, Westmere and unfamous Bulldozer cores.

Originaly it was planned to be TOP 10 only. However I added P4 and K8 just for fun and I realized someone else might find it interesting too how CPU evolulves in wider time frame.

zinfamous · May 15, 2020

DrMrLordX said:
Nah let's go 7-wide.

btw lulz at the 1800x being in the top 10.

Phenom still kicking ass in the world's top 20 of all time!

coercitiv · May 15, 2020

Richie Rich said:
290 vs. 276 is 5% difference due to frequency scaling 1GHz vs. 5GHz. That's pretty small hit.

What's this frequency scaling you're talking about?! The WORLD TOP itself uses normalized clocks, it doesn't get any better than running GB5 at 1Ghz!

Richie Rich said:
I will not put every core with at multiple frequencies.

Oh, you don't have to, you can just replace the weaker values for the same core type. So take down that 5Ghz 9900K and replace it with my 1Ghz 8700 since it's the More Powerful CPU.

Richie Rich said:
That's why EPYC 7702 doesn't make a sense to add as there is already Zen2 3950X with much higher ST performance.

That EPYC 7702 makes perfect sense because it offers better PPC. After all, you wouldn't want people to believe you're artificially picking weaker PPC results for some CPU, would you?

Richie Rich · May 15, 2020

coercitiv said:
What's this frequency scaling you're talking about?! The WORLD TOP itself uses normalized clocks, it doesn't get any better than running GB5 at 1Ghz!

Oh, you don't have to, you can just replace the weaker values for the same core type. So take down that 5Ghz 9900K and replace it with my 1Ghz 8700 since it's the More Powerful CPU.

That EPYC 7702 makes perfect sense because it offers better PPC. After all, you wouldn't want people to believe you're artificially picking weaker PPC results for some CPU, would you?

Read it again what I wrote above. The key for PPC selection is the most performance version of the core with the highest absolute ST performance. I will not add low clocked versions of Zen2 (EPYC) neither Skylake (your 8700). I hope you understand now. Lower clocked A13@1.2GHz would show higher PPC as well so it doesn't make sense anyway. The key is to keep this comparison as fair as possible (despite beiing cross platform).

Richie Rich · May 15, 2020

zinfamous said:
Phenom still kicking ass in the world's top 20 of all time!

Phenom II was a beast. IMO it will stay in TOP20 in front of Dozer cores. Lets see.

coercitiv · May 15, 2020

Richie Rich said:
Read it again what I wrote above. The key for PPC selection is the most performance version of the core with the highest absolute ST performance. I will not add low clocked versions of Zen2 (EPYC) neither Skylake (your 8700). I hope you understand now. Lower clocked A13@1.2GHz would show higher PPC as well so it doesn't make sense anyway.

But this is World's Most Powerful PPC CPU Top, not ST performance Top. You're welcome to replace A13 score with the one obtained @ 1.2Ghz, the World's Most Powerful PPC CPU Top would be incomplete without it!

Hitman928 · May 15, 2020

How about a 3300X at 322.07 pts/GHz?

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Benchmark results for a To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M. with an AMD Ryzen 3 3300X processor.

browser.geekbench.com

Thunder 57 · May 15, 2020

What a child! Downvoted because I dare to disagree? You have been nothing but trouble to this forum since you started. You make up measurements and spew BS. Guess I'm an idiot for not running an A13 in my main computer.

AmericanLocomotive · May 15, 2020

...and these things all seem to be assuming the CPU core is remaining pegged at its fastest turbo speed. I doubt that 3950X is staying at 4.6 GHz the entire test (based on how my 3900X works). That is probably why the EPYC Part has better "PPC" - it just stays at a fixed speed the entire time.

What about Geekbench itself? Is it the same source being compiled between x86 and iOS?

The compiler being used? Maybe whatever compiler you use to compile code for iOS is just highly optimized for their CPU architecture? x86 benchmarks and compilers tend to avoid CPU/architecture specific optimizations in order to be "fair" to all CPUs and not create situations where code might run on one system, but not another.

Hitman928 · May 15, 2020

coercitiv said:
Also a brand new CPU from Intel - 1153 @ 3.2GHz, that's 360 PPC.

This PPC World Top changes by the minute!

I'll do you one better, this one from Intel is pushing between 375 - 380 PPC.

Dell Inc. XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a Dell Inc. XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 with an Intel Core i7-1065G7 processor.

browser.geekbench.com

Hitman928 · May 15, 2020

AmericanLocomotive said:
What about Geekbench itself? Is it the same source being compiled between x86 and iOS?

The compiler being used? Maybe whatever compiler you use to compile code for iOS is just highly optimized for their CPU architecture? x86 benchmarks and compilers tend to avoid CPU/architecture specific optimizations in order to be "fair" to all CPUs and not create situations where code might run on one system, but not another.

Same sources but Windows/Linux use LLVM for compiler whereas iOS and Android use their own customized compilers (based on LLVM). AMD has their own customized LLVM compiler and intel has it's own completely closed source compiler, but neither is used for Geekbench.

Hayabusa Rider · May 15, 2020

DrMrLordX said:
It might, depending on whether or not the encoding process can use fixed-function hardware.

In the real world one can make a purpose-built chip which will encode at fantastic rates I'm sure, however the A13 isn't that AFAIK. Heading over to the Geekbench site and looking at top performers, the A13 doesn't even show up as a top performer. If one browses the specific processors such as the a13 and the 3700x the comparison becomes absurd. I don't know much about particulars compared to many here but it seems to me it's bit like golf. If one goes about it right any drunk can beat the best pro out there with the right course and handicap. In the real world, not so much. I understand what you are saying but AFAIK there's not anyone using the A13 because it's faster than everything else.

coercitiv · May 15, 2020

Hitman928 said:
I'll do you one better, this one from Intel is pushing between 375 - 380 PPC.

Dell Inc. XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a Dell Inc. XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 with an Intel Core i7-1065G7 processor.

browser.geekbench.com

Great finding!

OP, can you please update the World's Most Powerful PPC CPU Top? We have all these new exciting entries!

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