System76 Gazelle Pro - Ubuntu 13.04 vs. 13.10 System76 Gazelle Pro Intel Core i7 Haswel laptop with Ubuntu Linux 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 13.10. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article. System76 Gazelle Pro: Processor: Intel Core i7-4900MQ @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Gazelle Professional, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP (1300MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-27-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.6, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.3, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 13.10 20130816: Processor: Intel Core i7-4900MQ @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Gazelle Professional, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12, Graphics: Intel 4th Gen Core IGP (1300MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-2-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.0, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.1.6, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 85.07 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 86.23 |================================================ Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 21.70 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 23.63 |================================================ Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 106.63 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 107.63 |=============================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 7.12 |================================================= Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 7.10 |================================================= Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 32.57 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 35.73 |================================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 50.13 |==================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 66.27 |================================================ Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 109.88 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 121.69 |=============================================== GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 85 |=================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 85 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 255 |================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 255 |================================================== GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 18608 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 21290 |================================================ GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 246 |==================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 340 |================================================== GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 6456 |========================================= Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 7691 |================================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 28.07 |======================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 33.93 |================================================ GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1366 x 768 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 6478 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 7621 |================================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 49.32 |======================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 59.40 |================================================ GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1366 x 768 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 17551 |===================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 22836 |================================================ GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1366 x 768 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 85 |=================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 85 |=================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 35.02 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 40.13 |================================================ GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1366 x 768 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 247 |==================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 341 |================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 171.59 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 176.82 |=============================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 75.55 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 87.28 |================================================ Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 52.54 |=========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 58.78 |================================================ GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1366 x 768 Points > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 255 |================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 255 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 230.73 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 243.13 |=============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 398.93 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 406.43 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 1773.08 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 1737.25 |============================================= Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 21.09 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 21.66 |================================================ LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 35.55 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 34.53 |=============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 6413 |================================================= Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 5245 |======================================== Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 93.32 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 92.94 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 5712 |================================================= Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 5741 |================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 18513000 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 8915667 |====================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 42344 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 40424 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 81.41 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 84.69 |================================================ x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 163.84 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 162.11 |=============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 31.01 |================================================ Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 26.54 |========================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. 98 |=================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . 98 |=================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 35.6 MAX: 87.0 Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 29.4 MAX: 66.0 Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. MIN: 28.0 AVG: 45.8 MAX: 75.0 Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . MIN: 28.0 AVG: 42.5 MAX: 84.0 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 11.7 MAX: 23.0 Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 11.5 MAX: 22.0 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 18.2 MAX: 43.0 Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 15.0 MAX: 34.0 Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. MIN: 18.0 AVG: 30.5 MAX: 50.0 Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . MIN: 18.0 AVG: 27.8 MAX: 71.0 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better System76 Gazelle Pro .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 9.5 MAX: 21.0 Ubuntu 13.10 20130816 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 9.2 MAX: 20.0