Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Intel Sandy Bridge Testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 x86_64 (RHEL 6.2) on an Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge system and Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme system compared to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS development snapshot. Testing by Michael Larabel of Phoronix for a future article. Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.2, Kernel: 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: intel 2.16.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/702MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, 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: 1920x1080 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 126.71 |=============================== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 116.00 |============================ Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 37.30 |========= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 234 |================================== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 235 |================================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 73 |=========== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 16.57 |================================ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 16.58 |================================ Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 16.49 |================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 7.50 |================================= Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 7.06 |=============================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 7.03 |=============================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 8112 |=========== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 7758 |========== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 24645 |================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 22.36 |================================ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 21.92 |=============================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 6.03 |========= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 200.00 |=============================== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 202.44 |=============================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 65.69 |========== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 4364333 |============================== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 4359667 |============================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 4389333 |============================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 12249 |=============================== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 12398 |================================ Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 12468 |================================ John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 752 |================================ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 788 |================================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 793 |================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 74.83 |================================ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 75.23 |================================ Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 75.48 |================================ Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 10723.00 |=============== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 19544.67 |========================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 21416.95 |============================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 3928 |============================ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 3482 |========================= Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 4583 |================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 112.27 |============ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 108.09 |=========== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 297.88 |=============================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 24.12 |================================ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 23.77 |================================ Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 22.45 |============================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 26.51 |================================ Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 25.59 |=============================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 9.43 |=========== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 1322.49 |============================= Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 1286.64 |============================ Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 1360.47 |============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 5323.71 |========= Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 5396.14 |========== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 16301.72 |============================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 1233.32 |=========== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 1257.77 |=========== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 3312.24 |============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 119.53 |======================== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 153.22 |=============================== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 155.04 |=============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 3521.35 |======= Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 3601.20 |======= Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 15507.92 |============================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 2783.36 |======== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 2745.11 |======== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 10159.72 |============================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 2484.30 |======== Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 2390.11 |======== Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 9256.33 |============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 . 16.64 |======= Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 16.87 |======= Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....... 72.02 |================================