Linux 4.5 Kernel Tests Xeon E3 Linux 4.1 through Linux 4.5 kernel benchmarks with a Xeon E3 1280 v5. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Linux 4.1: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.1.0-040100-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-ac22262 2016-03-01 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160225, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Linux 4.2: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-040200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-ac22262 2016-03-01 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160225, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Linux 4.3: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.3.0-040300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-ac22262 2016-03-01 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160225, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Linux 4.4: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-040400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-ac22262 2016-03-01 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160225, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Linux 4.5 Git: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160228, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-ac22262 2016-03-01 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160225, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 24.63 |================================================ Linux 4.2 ..... 24.40 |================================================ Linux 4.3 ..... 28.58 |======================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 27.99 |======================================================= Linux 4.5 Git . 28.44 |======================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 163.63 |======================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 162.07 |====================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 143.60 |================================================ Linux 4.4 ..... 135.40 |============================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 132.87 |============================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.1 MAX: 57.0 Linux 4.2 ..... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.2 MAX: 29.0 Linux 4.3 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.9 MAX: 31.0 Linux 4.4 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 7.3 MAX: 34.0 Linux 4.5 Git . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 7.4 MAX: 40.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 131.87 |======================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 131.46 |======================================================= Linux 4.3 ..... 121.25 |=================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 117.53 |================================================= Linux 4.5 Git . 116.05 |================================================ Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 20.89 |======================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 20.89 |======================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 20.85 |======================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 20.35 |======================================================= Linux 4.5 Git . 20.40 |======================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 334.79 |===================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 327.24 |==================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 346.37 |======================================================= Linux 4.4 ..... 343.12 |====================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 340.86 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 151.84 |==================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 151.89 |==================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 160.36 |======================================================= Linux 4.4 ..... 149.04 |=================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 144.37 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 114.55 |==================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 115.08 |==================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 120.65 |======================================================= Linux 4.4 ..... 113.47 |==================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 111.33 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 1062 |========================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 1062 |========================================================= Linux 4.3 ..... 1066 |========================================================= Linux 4.4 ..... 1065 |========================================================= Linux 4.5 Git . 1065 |========================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 75668 |======================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 75760 |======================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 75803 |======================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 67588 |================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 67582 |================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 19.88 |======================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 19.89 |======================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 19.74 |======================================================= Linux 4.4 ..... 19.78 |======================================================= Linux 4.5 Git . 19.99 |======================================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 30.07 |======================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 30.00 |======================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 30.21 |======================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 30.15 |======================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 29.97 |======================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 233.71 |======================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 233.40 |======================================================= Linux 4.3 ..... 229.86 |====================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 230.53 |====================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 230.76 |====================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 211.80 |======================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 211.54 |======================================================= Linux 4.3 ..... 208.11 |====================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 207.75 |====================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 207.69 |====================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 2471.84 |====================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 2466.33 |====================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 2474.93 |====================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 2470.48 |====================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 2481.98 |====================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 90.73 |======================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 91.28 |======================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 91.02 |======================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 90.65 |======================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 90.38 |======================================================= FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 9.52 |========================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 9.48 |========================================================= Linux 4.3 ..... 8.82 |===================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 8.83 |===================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 8.78 |===================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 256MB Array, 256 Byte Stride ns < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 56.86 |======================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 57.30 |======================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 57.40 |======================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 57.23 |======================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 57.38 |======================================================== Multichase Pointer Chaser Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 4 Threads ns < Lower Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 65.67 |======================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 65.54 |======================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 65.21 |======================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 65.50 |======================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 65.36 |======================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 277.70 |======================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 228.68 |============================================= Linux 4.3 ..... 225.27 |============================================= Linux 4.4 ..... 223.58 |============================================ Linux 4.5 Git . 261.18 |==================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 3254.09 |================================================= Linux 4.2 ..... 3431.92 |==================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 3036.62 |============================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 3340.30 |=================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 3569.21 |====================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 2898696.83 |================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 2941193.50 |=================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 2885270.67 |================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 2646018.42 |============================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 2795631.58 |================================================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 2204363.50 |=================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 2206119.17 |=================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 1954378.69 |============================================= Linux 4.4 ..... 2011986.96 |=============================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 2064428.12 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.1 ..... 50602.79 |=================================================== Linux 4.2 ..... 52387.14 |===================================================== Linux 4.3 ..... 49416.45 |================================================== Linux 4.4 ..... 49833.94 |================================================== Linux 4.5 Git . 50354.68 |===================================================