Fedora 18 Updates Testing Testing Fedora updates to Fedora 18 Linux x86_64 from a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 with Intel Core i7 CPU. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel. Fedora 18 Stock: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Fedora 18 Updated: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.8.6-203.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.6, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 34.96 |==================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 26.62 |======================================== BLAKE2 20121223 Phoronix Test Suite v4.6.0m1 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 3.78 |===================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 3.63 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 23.05 |==================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 23.25 |==================================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock . 107.50 |===================================================== Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 48.73 |================================================ Fedora 18 Updated . 53.00 |==================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 800 x 600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 60.40 |==================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 60.23 |==================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 35.30 |==================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 35.33 |==================================================== Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 228.96 |================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 231.29 |=================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 25.99 |==================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 18.59 |===================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 3224 |===================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 3074 |=================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 175.72 |=================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 176.61 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 76 |======================================================= Fedora 18 Updated . 76 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 46 |======================================================= Fedora 18 Updated . 44 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 91 |======================================================= Fedora 18 Updated . 91 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 111 |====================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 111 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 59 |======================================================= Fedora 18 Updated . 59 |======================================================= x264 2013-01-28 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 60.88 |==================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 61.10 |==================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 78.19 |==================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 78.29 |==================================================== FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 27.12 |=================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 27.48 |==================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 290 |===================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 297 |====================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 5703.97 |================================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 5427.10 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 Stock ... 2390.01 |=============================================== Fedora 18 Updated . 2532.46 |==================================================