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.

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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" "World of Padman - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,35.60,192.43,192.90,193.00 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,25.57,78.81,78.92,79.20 "SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,39.80,39.80,46.21,47.59 "Loopback TCP Network Performance - Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback (sec)",LIB,19.09,16.79,16.15,16.11 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,476.93,479.74,477.84,423.35 "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 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,24488,24333,23835,25384 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,211.68,224.59,225.22,224.86 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,5.94,5.95,5.65,5.82 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,22.98,23.07,23.85,23.65 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync (Files/s)",HIB,1542.60,1569.57,1587.43,1592.33 "Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,1681.10,1683.01,1671.67,1634.18 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,40.90,40.82,40.78,39.74 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1699.60,1682.16,1663.36,1651.61 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,319.27,318.38,315.15,312.28 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,183.23,183.47,184.73,181.50 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,164.43,165.11,164.66,167.26 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,75,76,75,76 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,5.71,5.78,5.76,5.73 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,86,86,85,85 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,191.70,189.57,191.40,191.43 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1075.58,1072.61,1067.72,1064.11 "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 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,65.94,65.66,66.15,66.09 "Stream - Type: Triad (MB/s)",HIB,26977.40,27048.09,26895.30,27078.62 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,147,148,148,148 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,9.79,9.81,9.82,9.76 "Stream - Type: Scale (MB/s)",HIB,24380.22,24382.03,24307.78,24444.16 "Stream - Type: Add (MB/s)",HIB,25732.30,25749.73,25626.52,25767.20 "Stream - Type: Copy (MB/s)",HIB,25667.13,25667.54,25586.79,25722.16 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,18.82,18.77,18.76,18.74 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,12439,12475,12469,12460 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,967.15,967.92,966.39,965.63 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,22.16,22.18,22.20,22.21 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,441.87,442.78,441.87,442.78 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1950.04,1951.82,1951.82,1948.25 "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: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,4393333,4392667,4389000,4390000 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,88,88,88,88 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,4166,4416,4583,4666