Ubuntu 16.04 To 6.06 Dapper LTS Linux Benchmarks 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 benchmarks on Ubuntu LTS Linux of 16.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 12.04 vs. 10.04 vs. 8.04 vs. 6.06. Linux performance tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: ATI : 689e, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Ubuntu 6.06, Kernel: 2.6.15-26-amd64-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.14.3, Display Server: X Server 7.0.0, Display Driver: vesa 1.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.0.3-1ubuntu5, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: ATI 689e, Audio: ATI aa50, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Ubuntu 8.04, Kernel: 2.6.24-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.22.1, Display Server: X Server 1.4.0.90, Display Driver: vesa 1.3.0, OpenGL: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2), Compiler: GCC 4.2.4-1ubuntu4, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1440 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: ATI Device 689e 256MB, Audio: ATI Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.6, Display Driver: ati 6.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5800 1024MB, Audio: AMD ATI Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-2-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160121, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 462.06 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 459.03 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 333.39 |=============================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 330.64 |=============================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ........... 47.55 |========================== Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 79.40 |============================================ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 29.73 |================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 29.60 |================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 28.47 |================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 29.80 |================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ........... 77.37 |========================================= Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 83.37 |============================================ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 49.87 |========================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 64.67 |================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 64.27 |================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 64.93 |================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ........... 53.63 |============================== Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 79.37 |============================================ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 28.67 |================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 30.20 |================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 28.63 |================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 29.30 |================ Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 160.44 |=========================================== Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 46.74 |============= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 109.93 |============================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 111.32 |============================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 109.43 |============================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ........... 463.55 |=========================================== Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 211.05 |==================== Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 423.26 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 220.15 |==================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 207.67 |=================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 359.92 |================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ........... 150.01 |=================================== Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 145.73 |================================== Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 177.37 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 136.46 |================================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 137.02 |================================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 185.93 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 66.90 |=============== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 194.03 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 183.83 |========================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 32.97 |================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 87.40 |========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 91.10 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 29.6 MAX: 49.0 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 11.2 MAX: 44.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 10.7 MAX: 54.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 79.78 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 82.54 |============================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 148.21 |========================================= Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 155.67 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 87.87 |===================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 102.01 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 64.39 |======================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 71.38 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 9663 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 9962 |============================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 696 |==================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 887 |============================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 43650 |============================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 68906 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 21252 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 20812 |=========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 14784 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 13953 |========================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 64.21 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 56.98 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 57.43 |======================================= Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 59.58 |========================================= FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 2048 Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 4691.86 |========================================== Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 4574.18 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 4367.54 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 4538.98 |========================================= Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 4441.90 |======================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 6024 |=========================================== Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 6101 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 6284 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 5935 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 6068 |=========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 420.30 |=================================== Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 466.53 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 395.46 |================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 512.70 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 517.37 |=========================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 39.73 |================================= Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 46.69 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 49.84 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 52.60 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 50.33 |========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 132.64 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 123.25 |====================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 138.53 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 126.68 |======================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 79.54 |============================================ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 58.02 |================================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 51.91 |============================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 27.15 |=============== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 25.08 |============== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 15.08 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 15.14 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 14.97 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 14.96 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 30.04 |============================================ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 27.53 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 27.51 |======================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 27.65 |======================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 26.82 |======================================= FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 43.08 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 41.46 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 31.67 |================================ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 25.87 |========================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 356987.91 |============== Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 949799.21 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 971285.44 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 885274.69 |==================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 996091.46 |======================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 304997.69 |================= Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 645446.31 |=================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 732768.46 |======================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 669691.96 |==================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 734965.37 |======================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ........... 14090.55 |================================ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS .......... 15490.26 |=================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 17893.86 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS .......... 15359.46 |=================================== Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 . 16377.05 |======================================