Intel Sandy Bridge - Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 Intel Core i5-2520M Sandy Bridge benchmarks under clean x86_64 installations of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Besides comparing stock Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Linux performance, also added in Git master tests of the Intel Linux graphics stack - Linux 3.4 Git, Mesa 8.1-devel, libdrm, xf86-video-intel Git DDX. Also a GCC 4.8 snapshot. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com in May by Michael Larabel. Ubuntu 11.10: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: intel 2.15.901, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Ubuntu 12.04: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.19.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-7bf3fe8), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0 20120429, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 Demo: Fish FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 1.04 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 1.12 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 1.26 |============================================= Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 Demo: Gears FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 61.45 |======================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 98.90 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 111.81 |=========================================== Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 Demo: Charts FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 12.00 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 11.95 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 13.15 |============================================ Cairo Performance Demos 2012-01-30 Demo: Gradients FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 45.61 |============================= Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 68.36 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 65.91 |========================================== cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: Poppler Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 7.34 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 5.27 |================================ Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 5.34 |================================= cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: Firefox Canvas Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 61.75 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 50.97 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 51.15 |==================================== cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: GNOME Terminal Vim Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 19.04 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 13.48 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 13.86 |================================ Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 13.64 |====================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 25.66 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 26.73 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 42.90 |======================= Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 80.30 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 82.23 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 14.67 |============================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 21.13 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 21.40 |============================================ Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 20.97 |========================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 34.03 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 35.40 |============================================ Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 38.99 |============================ Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 60.85 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 62.38 |============================================ Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 18.32 |========================= Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 31.16 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 32.10 |============================================ VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 16.05 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 16.04 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 16.04 |============================================ x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 57.22 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 58.71 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 58.62 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 101 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 102 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 103 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 128 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 129 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 129 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 41 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 41 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 41 |=============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 7323 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 7829 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 7844 |============================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 204.81 |=========================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 203.00 |=========================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 324.33 |=========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 119.47 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 116.41 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 115.66 |========================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 22.42 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 22.17 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 22.23 |============================================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 241 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 230 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 230 |============================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 2647.83 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 2888.33 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 2744.96 |======================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 28365.09 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 26110.60 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 27672.75 |======================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .............. 17873.46 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.04 .............. 19358.34 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master . 19945.25 |=========================================