Ubuntu 13.10 vs. 13.03 vs. 12.10 Linux Intel Core i7-3960X testing with a Intel DX79SI and AMD [AMD/ATI] RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] 512MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix. Ubuntu 13.10 20130705: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 25.50GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD [AMD/ATI] RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-2-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 13.04: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 12.10: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection 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: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 59.40 |================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 59.77 |================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 85.10 |================================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 15.37 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 14.57 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 15.50 |================================================ Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 59.07 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 59.93 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 31.30 |========================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 59.88 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 59.93 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 36.94 |============================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 39.13 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 39.67 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 10.23 |============ Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 24.94 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 25.06 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 11.51 |====================== Parboil 2.5 Test: Matrix Q Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 26.45 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 17.26 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 23.21 |========================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 50.12 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 49.35 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 52.37 |================================================ Parboil 2.5 Test: Seven-Point Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 44.21 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 45.07 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 44.46 |=============================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: Cutoff Pair Potential Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 11.05 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 11.05 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 10.97 |================================================ Parboil 2.5 Test: Two-Point Angular Correlation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 476.62 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 464.28 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 489.87 |=============================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: Lid-Driven Cavity Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 462.83 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 464.21 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 461.75 |=============================================== Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 73.25 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 68.92 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 50.45 |================================= Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP Leukocyte Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 26.07 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 25.80 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 26.29 |================================================ Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 86.94 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 85.82 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 85.60 |=============================================== Rodinia 2.2 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 62.52 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 62.78 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 62.72 |================================================ Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 24.32 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 23.99 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 24.12 |================================================ LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 60.28 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 39.68 |================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 39.63 |================================ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 5417.88 |=========================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 5746.29 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 5742.62 |============================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 15.26 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 15.27 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 15.30 |================================================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 5.87 |========================================= Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 7.06 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 6.02 |========================================== BLAKE2 20121223 Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.0m1 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 8.78 |================================================= Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 5.02 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 5.01 |============================ TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 189.56 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 168.53 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 162.57 |======================================== x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 215.55 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 213.00 |============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 1643.09 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 1635.37 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 1606.99 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 5.62 |================================================= Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 5.29 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 5.27 |============================================== FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 11.46 |============================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 18.11 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 18.38 |================================================ NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 21786.72 |====================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 24675.61 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 25954.39 |============================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 20130705 . 14603.32 |====================================== Ubuntu 13.04 .......... 14227.11 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.10 .......... 17231.28 |=============================================