CPU Benchmark Performance: Science And Simulation

Publish date: 2024-06-09

Our Science section covers all the tests that typically resemble more scientific-based workloads and instruction sets. Simulation and Science have a lot of overlap in the benchmarking world. The benchmarks that fall under Science have a distinct use for the data they output – in our Simulation section, these act more like synthetics but, at some level, are still trying to simulate a given environment.

In the encrypt/decrypt scenario, how data is transferred and by what mechanism is pertinent to on-the-fly encryption of sensitive data - a process by which more modern devices are leaning to for software security.

Adding to our 2024 CPU suite, we've included the Montage Astronomical Image Mosaic Engine (MAIM) benchmark and OpenFOAM 1.2 and retained our gaming simulation benchmarks, including our Dwarf Fortress and Factorio benchmarks.

We are using DDR5 memory on the Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K, Core i5-14600K, and Intel's 13th Gen at the relative JEDEC settings. The same methodology is also used for the AMD Ryzen 7000 series and Intel's 12th Gen (Alder Lake) processors. Below are the settings we have used for each platform:

Note: As we are running with a completely refreshed CPU test suite, this means we are currently re-testing other processors for our data sets. These will be added to the below graphs as soon as we have more results, and these will also be added to our Bench database. Thanks for your understanding.

(5-1) y-cruncher 0.8.2.9523: ST (5M Pi)

(5-1b) y-cruncher 0.8.2.9523: MT (5M Pi)

(5-2) 3D Particle Movement v2.1: Non-AVX

(5-2b) 3D Particle Movement v2.1: Peak AVX

(5-3) Primesieve 1.9.0: High Core Count

(5-4) Montage Astronomical Image Mosaic Engine 6.0

(5-5) OpenFOAM 1.2: motorBike - Mesh Time

(5-5b) OpenFOAM 1.2: motorBike - Execution Time

(5-6) Dwarf Fortress 0.44.12 World Gen 65x65, 250 Yr

(5-6b) Dwarf Fortress 0.44.12 World Gen 129x129, 550 Yr

(5-6c) Dwarf Fortress 0.44.12 World Gen 257x257, 550 Yr

(5-7) Factorio v1.1.26 Test, 10K Trains

(5-7b) Factorio v1.1.26 Test, 10K Belts

(5-7c) Factorio v1.1.26 Test, 20K Hybrid

(5-9) 3DMark CPU Profile Benchmark v1.1: 1 x Thread

(5-9b) 3DMark CPU Profile Benchmark v1.1: 8 x Threads

(5-9c) 3DMark CPU Profile Benchmark v1.1: Max Threads

Noting the performance in 3DPM 2.1 with AVX instructions, the AMD Ryzen 7000 series CPUs do support this and, as a result, are clearly ahead in this specific test. In the other scientific and simulation-based workloads, the Ryzen 7000X3D chips perform better overall in Dwarf Fortress and Factorio, which are both game simulations, and they leverage the extra L3 cache available. 

As expected, the Core i9-14900K and Core i9-13900K perform within margins of each other, and the same can be said about the Core i5 14600K to the Core i5-13600K. The Core i7-14700K isn't too far off the performance of the Core i9s and is closer in performance to these than it is the Core i5s.

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