openSUSE 11.4 vs. 12.1 Linux Performance

Benchmarks of openSUSE 12.1 final from a Core i7 notebook compared to openSUSE 11.4.

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openSUSE 11.4
November 15 2011
 
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November 15 2011
 
SandyBridge
November 07 2011
 
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openSUSE 11.4 vs. 12.1 Linux Performance Benchmarks of openSUSE 12.1 final from a Core i7 notebook compared to openSUSE 11.4. ,,"openSUSE 11.4","openSUSE 12.1","SandyBridge" Processor,,Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,LENOVO 4318CTO,LENOVO 4318CTO,ASUS P8P67 LE Chipset,,Intel Core DMI,Intel Core DMI,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,4 x 2048 MB DDR3-1333MHz Disk,,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,115GB OCZ VERTEX2 Graphics,,NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M (550/950MHz),NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M (550/790MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (763/1900MHz) Audio,,Conexant CX20585,Conexant CX20585,Realtek ALC892 Network,,Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300,Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300,Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS,,SUSE LINUX 11.4,SUSE LINUX 12.1,SUSE LINUX 12.1 Kernel,,2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop (x86_64),3.1.0-1.2-desktop (x86_64),3.1.0-1.2-default (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME 2.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.2.1,KDE 4.7.2 Display Server,,X Server 1.9.3,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4 Display Driver,,nouveau 0.0.16,nouveau 0.0.16,NVIDIA 290.10 OpenGL,,1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.10),2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,4.2.0 NVIDIA 290.10 Compiler,,GCC 4.5,GCC 4.6, File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1600x900,1600x900,1440x900 ,,"openSUSE 11.4","openSUSE 12.1","SandyBridge" "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,45.33,46.19,130.40 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8701,8389,22453 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,3571,2996,6667 "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,2932.83,2661.87, "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,118.86,117.26,42.47 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,267,258,80 "SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,19.09,22.42,6.77 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,30.81,30.39,15.99 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,19.38,19.76,7.14 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,40.99,44.22,20.32 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,52.10,58.44,