GCC 4.9 Shows Little Change For AMD's Kaveri

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 30 January 2014 at 12:32 AM EST. Page 2 of 3. 5 Comments.
GCC 4.8 4.9 Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking
GCC 4.8 4.9 Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking
GCC 4.8 4.9 Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking

There are some minor performance changes when compiling various test profiles with GCC 4.9's latest development snapshot in place of GCC 4.8.2, but overall there are no major changes.

GCC 4.8 4.9 Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking
GCC 4.8 4.9 Compiler AMD Kaveri Benchmarking

The same compiler flags were used during testing of both GCC compiler releases, which for most tests means -O3 and -march=native was set for building the best possible binaries.


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