Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS vs. Ubuntu 12.10 - Intel Core i5 On Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge laptop benchmarking updated Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS compared to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal snapshot near final from early October. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07: 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: 3.2.0-31-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.16.0, 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 12.10 2012-10-07: 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 2nd Generation Core Family IGP, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 195.84 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 212.36 |======================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 25.94 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 10.28 |================ OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 84.10 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 84.03 |======================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 21.23 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 21.73 |======================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 95.68 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 98.90 |======================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 3663.44 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 3591.10 |===================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 2764.01 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 2789.91 |====================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 2391.33 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 2454.82 |====================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 16.90 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 16.84 |======================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 32.85 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 32.43 |======================================= LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 51.92 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 50.63 |======================================= FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 4442.34 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 4685.94 |====================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 12.90 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 13.35 |======================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 2074 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 2091 |========================================= VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 16.80 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 16.79 |======================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 60.73 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 60.68 |======================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 81 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 80 |========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 41 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 41 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 103 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 100 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 129 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 125 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 68 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 69 |=========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 1245.81 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 1261.92 |====================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 202.84 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 218.91 |======================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 116.55 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 86.81 |============================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 230 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 250 |========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 16.54 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 16.61 |======================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 24.38 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 24.10 |======================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 99.20 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 98.70 |======================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 2985.40 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 2951.44 |====================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 2012-10-07 . 20341.54 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.10 2012-10-07 ....... 19621.15 |====================================