Ubuntu 14.10 32-bit vs. 64-bit Benchmarks Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article. Ubuntu 14.10 x86: Processor: Intel Core i7-4600U @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC2 (IPC2), Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Micron_M500_MTFD, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1100MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: MX279, Network: Intel Connection I218-LM + Intel Wireless 7260 OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-22-generic (i686), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64: Processor: Intel Core i7-4600U @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC2 (IPC2), Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Micron_M500_MTFD, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1100MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: MX279, Network: Intel Connection I218-LM + Intel Wireless 7260 OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.11 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 76.28 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 83.44 |================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 542 |===== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 5434 |=================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 41.88 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 42.36 |================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 58.91 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 58.99 |================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 55.74 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 55.82 |================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 44.14 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 44.14 |================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 3874.72 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 5009.63 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 2353 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 2656 |=================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 28433 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 33906 |================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 16.35 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 18.26 |================================================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 71.06 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 81.63 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 92 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 113 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 62 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 72 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 108 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 136 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 123 |======================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 159 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 1695.31 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 1681.77 |================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 178.54 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 180.19 |================================================= Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 54.23 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 52.34 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 78.86 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 56.26 |==================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 17.91 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 17.79 |================================================== Primesieve 5.4 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 262.16 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 194.35 |==================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 285 |==================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 188 |================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 6.44 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 5.04 |======================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 19.31 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 17.55 |============================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 x86 .... 56.67 |=========== Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 . 247.40 |=================================================