Intel VT Performance Comparision Testing Intel VT Technologies on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite using VMware Workstation 10.0.4. Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d: Processor: Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.89GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 21GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371 / Creative, Network: AMD 79c970 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-39-generic (i686), Desktop: Unity 7.2.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: vmware 13.0.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900, System Layer: VMware Flexible IO Tester 2.1.11 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern - Disk Target: Default Test Directory Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 285.20 |=============================================== SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 55.95 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 29.27 |================================================ IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 211.14 |=============================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 26.80 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 25.27 |================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 12096.80 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 12003.41 |============================================= BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Register Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 1 |==================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 14274.49 |============================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 758 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 64 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 151.03 |=============================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 800 |================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 27.70 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel VT w/ EPTd VT-d . 5758.01 |==============================================