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.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1202197-BY-SANDYRHEL17
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Intel Sandy Bridge,
"IOzone 3.347 - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",112.4677734375,111.9462890625,112.408203125
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",107.765625,108.0791015625,108.4375
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",294.314453125,299.4189453125,299.9033203125
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",1228.581151,1321.442747,1336.26712,1351.08582,1348.796291,1348.771143
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1285.675116,1285.581471,1288.67084
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1361.599553,1359.47374,1360.350487
"7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",7882,8209,8246
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",7811,7734,7728
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",25317,24483,22980,25072,25134,24881
"John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Traditional DES",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",4363000,4367000,4363000
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",4355000,4364000,4360000
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",4390000,4390000,4388000
"John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: MD5",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",12225,12286,12237
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",12383,12406,12404
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",12466,12470,12467
"John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Blowfish",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",751,752,752
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",788,789,788
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",793,793,793
"Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",10964.49,10667.31,10537.21
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",19540.97,19559,19534.05
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",21473.06,21383.72,21394.06
"OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",74.7,74.6,75.3,74.7
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",75.2,75.1,75.3,75.3
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",75.5,75.5,75.6,75.3
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",5183.58,5393.73,5393.83
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",5406.31,5393.23,5388.89
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",16449.99,16200.65,16254.52
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",1236.68,1227.18,1236.11
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1256.01,1257.44,1259.87
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",3298.43,3329.43,3308.86
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",119.51,119.52,119.55
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",153.29,153.21,153.16
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",155.31,154.91,154.91
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",3517.2,3562.41,3484.44
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",3677.1,3613.54,3512.97
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",15459.12,15520.41,15544.24
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",2782.2,2783.36,2784.52
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",2744.17,2736.66,2754.51
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",10148.87,10161.89,10168.39
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",2492.47,2496.77,2463.67
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",2393.26,2373.62,2403.46
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",9312.83,9258.56,9197.61
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",16.6,16.6,16.72
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",16.96,16.83,16.81
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",71.54,72.38,72.14
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",4166,4166,4166,3571,4166,3571,4166,3571,4166,3571
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",3125,3571,3571,3571,3571,3571,3571,3125,3571,3571
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",5000,4166,5000,4166,5000,5000,4166,5000,4166,4166
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",126.634,126.793,126.698
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",115.755,115.698,116.552
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",37.249,37.618,37.029
"Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",233,236,233
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",244,230,231
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",73,73,72
"LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",16.59282708168,16.552006959915,16.578101873398,16.576907157898,16.550526857376
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",16.6028008461,16.56298995018,16.580225944519,16.569856882095,16.568149089813
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",16.517009019852,16.465381145477,16.483405828476,16.513854980469,16.458837985992
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",7.5167050361633,7.4837090969086,7.4967560768127,7.4845700263977,7.4990088939667
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",7.0663249492645,7.065761089325,7.0541200637817,7.0609891414642,7.0551760196686
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",7.0282649993896,7.0256571769714,7.0251100063324,7.0277850627899,7.023442029953
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 - 256MB File Compression",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",21.89534497261,22.943881034851,22.246052980423
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",21.852437973022,23.004148960114,21.456480026245,21.351722002029
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",6.0757761001587,6.0233368873596,5.9766309261322
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",202.76922297478,199.3743391037,197.85562610626
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",203.74490094185,201.63263702393,201.9359588623
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",66.700263977051,65.068292140961,65.301657915115
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",24.162270069122,24.108355998993,24.091752052307
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",23.80831193924,23.722867012024,23.780137062073
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",22.439748048782,22.478724002838,22.437350988388
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2",26.587083816528,26.362348079681,26.59498000145
"Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",25.679712057114,25.452461957932,25.636949062347
"Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",9.5387279987335,9.3695888519287,9.3758571147919