Ubuntu 14.04 Performance Various open-source benchmarks by the Phoronix Test Suite v5.0.1 (Plavsk). Intel Xeon X5677: Processor: Intel Xeon X5677 @ 3.46GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0D881F, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 36864MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AADS-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00P + 1500GB Seagate ST31500341AS, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 512MB (460/400MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1984A, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: U.S. Robotics USR997902 10/100/1000 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.38, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.4-1ubuntu3 + CUDA 5.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon X5677 . 79 |======================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon X5677 . 36.94 |=====================================================