Linux kernel benchmarking from an Intel Core i7 3960X overclocked to 4.5GHz on an Intel X79 motherboard as a review sample from Intel for future articles on Phoronix.com. Testing from the Linux 3.2 kernel and older. Using generic mainline Ubuntu kernel PPA to easy reproduce.
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Linux 3.2 Kernel Benchmarking
Linux kernel benchmarking from an Intel Core i7 3960X overclocked to 4.5GHz on an Intel X79 motherboard as a review sample from Intel for future articles on Phoronix.com. Testing from the Linux 3.2 kernel and older. Using generic mainline Ubuntu kernel PPA to easy reproduce.
,,"Linux 2.6.39","Linux 3.0","Linux 3.1","Linux 3.2"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores)
Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI
Chipset,,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2,Intel Sandy DMI2
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB,AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB,AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB,AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H
Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04
Kernel,,2.6.39-020639-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-0300-generic (x86_64),3.1.0-030100-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 2D 4.24.0,Unity 2D 4.24.0,Unity 2D 4.24.0,Unity 2D 4.24.0
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4
Display Driver,,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99
OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-2fe6c25) Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-2fe6c25) Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-2fe6c25) Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-2fe6c25) Gallium 0.4
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"Linux 2.6.39","Linux 3.0","Linux 3.1","Linux 3.2"
"Stream - Type: Triad (MB/s)",HIB,26977.40,27048.09,26895.30,27078.62
"Stream - Type: Add (MB/s)",HIB,25732.30,25749.73,25626.52,25767.20
"Stream - Type: Scale (MB/s)",HIB,24380.22,24382.03,24307.78,24444.16
"Stream - Type: Copy (MB/s)",HIB,25667.13,25667.54,25586.79,25722.16
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1950.04,1951.82,1951.82,1948.25
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1699.60,1682.16,1663.36,1651.61
"SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,441.87,442.78,441.87,442.78
"SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,967.15,967.92,966.39,965.63
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,319.27,318.38,315.15,312.28
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1075.58,1072.61,1067.72,1064.11
"Loopback TCP Network Performance - Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback (sec)",LIB,19.09,16.79,16.15,16.11
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,75.00,75.13,75.10,75.10
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,794,793,793,793
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,12439,12475,12469,12460
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,4393333,4392667,4389000,4390000
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,22.16,22.18,22.20,22.21
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,9.79,9.81,9.82,9.76
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,88,88,88,88
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,147,148,148,148
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,86,86,85,85
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,22.98,23.07,23.85,23.65
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,164.43,165.11,164.66,167.26
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,5.71,5.78,5.76,5.73
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,24488,24333,23835,25384
"CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,5.94,5.95,5.65,5.82
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,75,76,75,76
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,40.90,40.82,40.78,39.74
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,65.94,65.66,66.15,66.09
"Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,18.82,18.77,18.76,18.74
"FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync (Files/s)",HIB,1542.60,1569.57,1587.43,1592.33
"FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,183.23,183.47,184.73,181.50
"Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,1681.10,1683.01,1671.67,1634.18
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,476.93,479.74,477.84,423.35
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,211.68,224.59,225.22,224.86
"SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,39.80,39.80,46.21,47.59
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,4166,4416,4583,4666
"PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,3669.20,3758.19,3772.66,4114.41
"Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,18951.99,19684.41,20434.58,21057.97
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,170.57,171.63,171.21,169.83
"Lightsmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,117.00,116.81,116.72,116.05
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,25.57,78.81,78.92,79.20
"World of Padman - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,35.60,192.43,192.90,193.00
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,191.70,189.57,191.40,191.43