Ubuntu 12.04 AMD vs. Intel Virtualization Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme and AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 benchmarking of various Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualization options with the Precise Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of bare metal, Xen, KVM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization methods from this Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition and AMD Bulldozer systems that were running in the same configuration for the duration of testing. This Linux virtualization benchmarking is for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 12.04 AMD vs. Intel Virtualization Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution System Layer Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy DMI2 16384MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB Realtek ALC892 DELL P2210H Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.6.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 ext4 1920x1080 QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Bochs Red Hat Virtio 12288MB 16GB LLVMpipe Generic 1af4 ID 20 Red Hat Virtio device Unity 2D 5.6.0 cirrus 1.3.2 1024x768 QEMU 1.0 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Xen HVM domU v4.1.2 Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC 26GB Ensoniq ES1370 Xen HVM domU 4.1.2 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.19GHz (12 Cores) innotek VirtualBox v1.2 41GB VBOX HDD Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio Intel 82540EM Gigabit vesa 2.3.0 VirtualBox 4.1.10_Ubuntur76795 AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores) ASUS Crosshair V Formula AMD nee ATI RD890 16384MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB Realtek ALC889 DELL P2210H Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection Unity 5.6.0 radeon 6.14.99 1920x1080 QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores) Bochs Red Hat Virtio 12288MB 16GB LLVMpipe Generic 1af4 ID 20 Red Hat Virtio device Unity 2D 5.6.0 cirrus 1.3.2 1024x768 QEMU 1.0 AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.62GHz (8 Cores) innotek VirtualBox v1.2 Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC 41GB VBOX HDD Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio Intel 82540EM Gigabit vesa 2.3.0 VirtualBox 4.1.10_Ubuntur76795 Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz (8 Cores) ASUS P6T6 WS REVOLUTION Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R 6 x 2048 MB 1066MHz 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 MI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2 1024MB (715/1800MHz) Analog Devices AD1989B Realtek RTL8111/8168B 3.2.0-26-generic (x86_64) GNOME 3.2.1 NVIDIA 295.40 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40 1920x1080 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. Compiz was running on this system. - Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. Compiz was running on this system. - AMD FX-8150: KVM: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - 2012-07-08 17:35: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3. Compiz and Firefox were running on this system.
Ubuntu 12.04 AMD vs. Intel Virtualization vpxenc: vpxenc x264: H.264 Video Encoding graphics-magick: Blur graphics-magick: HWB Color Space graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Sharpen compilebench: Compile compilebench: Initial Create dbench: 1 tiobench: Rand Write - 64MB - 8 himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver scimark2: Composite scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test john-the-ripper: Blowfish nginx: Static Web Page Serving openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance npb: BT.A npb: CG.B npb: EP.B npb: FT.B npb: IS.C npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A hmmer: Pfam Database Search mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment build-imagemagick: Time To Compile build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile c-ray: Total Time compress-lzma: 256MB File Compression compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression crafty: Elapsed Time nero2d: Total Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 23.54 170.44 118 162 85 146 87 429.00 220.11 300.55 174.62 1357.24 1062.22 1941.16 307.91 1653.30 25015 6562 17638.33 74.98 16396.46 3307.14 305.52 9102.76 154.57 15393.08 10158.85 9340.36 73.12 12.14 4.89 42.07 65.71 37.37 155.28 6.06 90.96 708.09 21 19.67 139.51 113 157 83 138 85 312.79 159.19 268.33 9.57 1322.15 957.19 1737.26 180.14 1473.43 21319 6270 16675.53 74.85 14094.95 2941.37 297.07 8589.00 84.97 12133.88 8422.94 7007.17 56.96 10.67 7.45 41.31 76.52 39.42 197.93 6.42 93.82 715.72 21 23.18 156.54 98 146 77 130 81 378.65 144.09 255.00 135.89 1351.65 1050.68 1928.90 308.62 1617.43 23762 5657 17788.74 74.98 14979.75 2841.48 297.51 8693.00 153.99 11580.19 7698.61 6944.81 46.09 9.74 7.64 50.36 116.75 39.49 144.33 6.38 92.55 713.81 21 7.94 27.03 90 134 62 97 66 348.64 140.54 113.94 35.86 1258.82 907.17 1644.01 171.66 1384.57 5200 2179 3505.38 71.98 3600.71 675.11 207.84 4871.72 80.94 2537.95 1430.53 1100.63 2.79 29.94 60.65 58.26 116.36 56.52 209.48 13.53 99.29 749.63 29 19.86 132.08 114 162 67 131 64 589.92 228.54 175.65 253.23 631.86 809.54 1754.40 79.16 1066.68 17504 6386 17706.18 70.35 11870.22 2481.11 177.48 6392.14 107.53 11597.69 4616.18 5441.58 39.08 16.72 6.97 56.03 91.20 46.03 152.33 8.33 105.34 1038.73 33 14.98 113.92 110 155 69 123 82 332.38 181.85 152.85 9.59 649.43 748.35 1639.77 83.07 883.72 14991 6162 19976.40 69.98 10886.52 2339.77 165.26 6044.54 73.72 10624.59 4146.81 4927.24 35.86 14.47 11.47 53.87 97.83 46.59 182.35 8.60 107.99 1050.57 34 15.05 83.81 95 133 58 105 55 485.54 144.04 113.37 40.73 547.28 644.20 1418.45 72.65 745.59 13268 5366 8577.56 61.10 9603.87 2124.70 148.88 5521.19 63.74 9731.97 3554.96 4541.71 32.48 16.72 22.06 61.22 111.89 52.27 207.54 9.60 124.63 1239.39 38 12.97 96.88 95 134 62 111 63 361.53 199.84 268.83 194.36 1237.67 831.80 1450.45 213.40 1153.91 14357 3599 21962.06 50.33 7957.06 1274.21 170.05 3124.74 124.81 4651.32 3338.10 3127.74 18.84 15.12 8.17 70.72 109.70 57.12 160.39 11.71 557.46 125 OpenBenchmarking.org
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 12.97 19.86 14.98 15.05 23.54 19.67 7.94 23.18
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.83, N = 3 SE +/- 0.57, N = 3 SE +/- 1.65, N = 3 SE +/- 1.69, N = 3 SE +/- 1.43, N = 3 SE +/- 1.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 2.52, N = 3 96.88 132.08 113.92 83.81 170.44 139.51 27.03 156.54
GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 95 114 110 95 118 113 90 98
GraphicsMagick Operation: HWB Color Space OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 134 162 155 133 162 157 134 146
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 62 67 69 58 85 83 62 77
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.53, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 111 131 123 105 146 138 97 130
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.53, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 63 64 82 55 87 85 66 81
Compile Bench Test: Compile OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 130 260 390 520 650 SE +/- 4.18, N = 3 SE +/- 10.98, N = 3 SE +/- 4.87, N = 6 SE +/- 25.45, N = 6 SE +/- 6.76, N = 3 SE +/- 4.32, N = 6 SE +/- 4.86, N = 5 SE +/- 6.17, N = 3 361.53 589.92 332.38 485.54 429.00 312.79 348.64 378.65
Compile Bench Test: Initial Create OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 3.48, N = 3 SE +/- 2.32, N = 3 SE +/- 4.02, N = 6 SE +/- 2.35, N = 3 SE +/- 6.99, N = 3 SE +/- 2.38, N = 4 SE +/- 2.72, N = 3 SE +/- 1.77, N = 3 199.84 228.54 181.85 144.04 220.11 159.19 140.54 144.09
Dbench Client Count: 1 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 1.71, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 268.83 175.65 152.85 113.37 300.55 268.33 113.94 255.00
Threaded I/O Tester Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 0.88, N = 4 SE +/- 1.87, N = 4 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 SE +/- 0.39, N = 4 SE +/- 0.29, N = 4 SE +/- 0.04, N = 4 SE +/- 0.55, N = 8 SE +/- 0.34, N = 4 194.36 253.23 9.59 40.73 174.62 9.57 35.86 135.89
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 2.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 0.48, N = 3 SE +/- 1.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.38, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 1.94, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 1237.67 631.86 649.43 547.28 1357.24 1322.15 1258.82 1351.65
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 5.49, N = 4 SE +/- 0.99, N = 4 SE +/- 0.36, N = 4 SE +/- 10.03, N = 8 SE +/- 1.30, N = 4 SE +/- 1.82, N = 4 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 SE +/- 1.40, N = 4 831.80 809.54 748.35 644.20 1062.22 957.19 907.17 1050.68
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 9.46, N = 4 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 1.26, N = 4 SE +/- 22.91, N = 8 SE +/- 1.77, N = 4 SE +/- 5.66, N = 2 SE +/- 15.87, N = 4 SE +/- 3.47, N = 4 1450.45 1754.40 1639.77 1418.45 1941.16 1737.26 1644.01 1928.90
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 1.11, N = 4 SE +/- 0.07, N = 4 SE +/- 0.09, N = 4 SE +/- 0.95, N = 7 SE +/- 6.32, N = 4 SE +/- 0.38, N = 2 SE +/- 1.03, N = 4 SE +/- 0.95, N = 4 213.40 79.16 83.07 72.65 307.91 180.14 171.66 308.62
SciMark Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 6.20, N = 4 SE +/- 1.60, N = 4 SE +/- 0.96, N = 4 SE +/- 13.47, N = 8 SE +/- 3.19, N = 4 SE +/- 4.84, N = 4 SE +/- 19.10, N = 4 SE +/- 5.47, N = 4 1153.91 1066.68 883.72 745.59 1653.30 1473.43 1384.57 1617.43
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 150.42, N = 3 SE +/- 51.41, N = 3 SE +/- 224.77, N = 5 SE +/- 46.28, N = 3 SE +/- 101.71, N = 3 SE +/- 343.26, N = 4 SE +/- 93.66, N = 3 SE +/- 146.01, N = 3 14357 17504 14991 13268 25015 21319 5200 23762
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 1400 2800 4200 5600 7000 SE +/- 54.10, N = 3 SE +/- 20.63, N = 3 SE +/- 33.18, N = 3 SE +/- 40.19, N = 3 SE +/- 17.15, N = 3 SE +/- 125.58, N = 3 SE +/- 147.29, N = 6 SE +/- 204.91, N = 6 3599 6386 6162 5366 6562 6270 2179 5657
NGINX Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 322.13, N = 3 SE +/- 78.75, N = 3 SE +/- 180.29, N = 3 SE +/- 41.85, N = 3 SE +/- 40.72, N = 3 SE +/- 256.40, N = 4 SE +/- 44.99, N = 3 SE +/- 36.94, N = 3 21962.06 17706.18 19976.40 8577.56 17638.33 16675.53 3505.38 17788.74
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 SE +/- 0.32, N = 4 SE +/- 0.07, N = 4 SE +/- 0.29, N = 4 SE +/- 0.28, N = 4 SE +/- 0.16, N = 4 SE +/- 0.47, N = 4 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 50.33 70.35 69.98 61.10 74.98 74.85 71.98 74.98
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: BT.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 25.67, N = 3 SE +/- 23.11, N = 3 SE +/- 73.49, N = 3 SE +/- 39.09, N = 3 SE +/- 43.19, N = 3 SE +/- 158.44, N = 3 SE +/- 54.53, N = 3 SE +/- 147.53, N = 3 7957.06 11870.22 10886.52 9603.87 16396.46 14094.95 3600.71 14979.75
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: CG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 2.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 6.78, N = 3 SE +/- 1.75, N = 3 SE +/- 3.87, N = 3 SE +/- 57.92, N = 6 SE +/- 22.75, N = 6 SE +/- 43.89, N = 6 1274.21 2481.11 2339.77 2124.70 3307.14 2941.37 675.11 2841.48
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: EP.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 2.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.61, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 SE +/- 4.22, N = 6 SE +/- 1.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 170.05 177.48 165.26 148.88 305.52 297.07 207.84 297.51
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 6.77, N = 3 SE +/- 13.78, N = 3 SE +/- 7.85, N = 3 SE +/- 14.16, N = 3 SE +/- 2.38, N = 3 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 64.78, N = 6 SE +/- 8.23, N = 3 3124.74 6392.14 6044.54 5521.19 9102.76 8589.00 4871.72 8693.00
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: IS.C OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 1.39, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 124.81 107.53 73.72 63.74 154.57 84.97 80.94 153.99
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 27.18, N = 3 SE +/- 31.93, N = 3 SE +/- 59.13, N = 3 SE +/- 104.13, N = 3 SE +/- 55.11, N = 3 SE +/- 484.66, N = 6 SE +/- 42.99, N = 3 SE +/- 805.88, N = 6 4651.32 11597.69 10624.59 9731.97 15393.08 12133.88 2537.95 11580.19
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 44.93, N = 3 SE +/- 11.80, N = 3 SE +/- 18.61, N = 3 SE +/- 267.02, N = 6 SE +/- 24.04, N = 3 SE +/- 629.82, N = 6 SE +/- 85.61, N = 6 SE +/- 715.21, N = 6 3338.10 4616.18 4146.81 3554.96 10158.85 8422.94 1430.53 7698.61
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 5.43, N = 3 SE +/- 49.80, N = 3 SE +/- 36.25, N = 3 SE +/- 33.75, N = 3 SE +/- 13.26, N = 3 SE +/- 462.33, N = 6 SE +/- 6.52, N = 3 SE +/- 119.31, N = 4 3127.74 5441.58 4927.24 4541.71 9340.36 7007.17 1100.63 6944.81
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 6.08, N = 6 SE +/- 0.07, N = 6 SE +/- 2.58, N = 6 18.84 39.08 35.86 32.48 73.12 56.96 2.79 46.09
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.30, N = 6 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 5 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 15.12 16.72 14.47 16.72 12.14 10.67 29.94 9.74
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.17, N = 6 SE +/- 0.18, N = 6 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.32, N = 6 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 6 SE +/- 0.82, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 6 8.17 6.97 11.47 22.06 4.89 7.45 60.65 7.64
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.42, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 70.72 56.03 53.87 61.22 42.07 41.31 58.26 50.36
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 1.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.96, N = 3 SE +/- 1.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 SE +/- 1.78, N = 5 SE +/- 0.87, N = 3 109.70 91.20 97.83 111.89 65.71 76.52 116.36 116.75
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.32, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 57.12 46.03 46.59 52.27 37.37 39.42 56.52 39.49
LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 160.39 152.33 182.35 207.54 155.28 197.93 209.48 144.33
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 6 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 5 SE +/- 0.26, N = 6 SE +/- 0.11, N = 6 11.71 8.33 8.60 9.60 6.06 6.42 13.53 6.38
Crafty Elapsed Time AMD FX-8150 Intel Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Bare Metal KVM VirtualBox Xen 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 105.34 107.99 124.63 90.96 93.82 99.29 92.55
Open FMM Nero2D Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 300 600 900 1200 1500 557.46 1038.73 1050.57 1239.39 708.09 715.72 749.63 713.81
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 125 33 34 38 21 21 29 21
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