X1 Carbon Ubuntu 14.10 vs 15.04 Broadwell Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 14.10: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-29-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 10.3.2, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 15.04 20150123: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.18.0-9-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.2.901 (1.16.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 36.96 |================================================ Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 37.15 |================================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 111.19 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 103.31 |============================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 154.36 |============================================= Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 162.13 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 119.50 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 119.67 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 277.39 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 273.36 |============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 173.04 |======================================= Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 207.45 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 923.42 |======================================= Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 1095.48 |============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 5068 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 5282 |================================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 29.75 |============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 47.72 |================================================ Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 24.10 |============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 38.90 |================================================ Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 28.99 |======================================= Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 35.55 |================================================ Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 29.02 |======================================= Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 35.69 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 48.43 |=============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 74.81 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 48.43 |=============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 74.86 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 36.68 |=============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 55.96 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 36.68 |=============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 55.90 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 25.44 |=============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 39.06 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 25.46 |=============================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 39.05 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 2400 |================================================= Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 2404 |================================================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 73.87 |================================================ Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 73.65 |================================================ Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 59.65 |================================================ Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 59.98 |================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 284.35 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 284.57 |=============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 63.28 |================================================ Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 63.31 |================================================ Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 3872 |================================================= Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 3879 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 13.06 |================================================ Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 12.85 |=============================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 18.06 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 18.26 |================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 .......... 241.77 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 241.77 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 20150123 . 21219.66 |=============================================