Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 64-bit vs. 32-bit performance on Intel Core i7 notebook. 32-bit Ubuntu Linux benchmarking was with the 32-bit and 32-bit PAE (Physical Address Extensions) kernels. Testing of 8 February Precise Pangolin development snapshot, all other software versions/configurations remained the same besides swapping the kernels. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.
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32-bit vs 64-bit - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 64-bit vs. 32-bit performance on Intel Core i7 notebook. 32-bit Ubuntu Linux benchmarking was with the 32-bit and 32-bit PAE (Physical Address Extensions) kernels. Testing of 8 February Precise Pangolin development snapshot, all other software versions/configurations remained the same besides swapping the kernels. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.
Unity 12.04 32-bit:
Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-14-generic (i686), Desktop: Unity 5.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE:
Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-14-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: Unity 5.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit:
Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 7990 |===========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 7892 |==========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 8792 |===============================================
Apache Benchmark 2.2.21
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 10717.12 |==================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 13652.93 |===========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 13532.92 |===========================================
C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 173.89 |=============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 173.76 |=============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 107.07 |============================
Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 852.92 |===================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 851.90 |===================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 1067.03 |============================================
LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 25.91 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 25.92 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 22.92 |=========================================
OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 95.30 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 94.77 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 94.77 |==============================================
OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 19.05 |=====================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 19.08 |=====================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 42.00 |==============================================
PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 587 |=========
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 587 |=========
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 3125 |===============================================
Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 298 |================================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 298 |================================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 246 |========================================
Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 35.63 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 35.74 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 27.83 |====================================
Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 38.69 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 38.75 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 30.99 |=====================================
Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2
Primate Phylogeny Analysis
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 37.07 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 37.00 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 34.94 |===========================================
VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 9.11 |===========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 8.81 |==========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 9.89 |===============================================
x264 2011-12-06
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 12.04 32-bit ...... 51.16 |========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit PAE . 50.91 |========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ..... 58.62 |==============================================