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.

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Audio Encoding 2 Tests
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Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2
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February 18 2012
 
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February 19 2012
 
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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","Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS" Processor,,Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Motherboard,,HP 161C,HP 161C,Intel DX79SI Chipset,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel Sandy DMI2 Memory,,1 x 4096 MB,4096MB,16384MB Disk,,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,240GB OCZ VERTEX3 Graphics,,Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/702MHz) Audio,,Intel 6 /C200,IDT 92HD81B1X5,Realtek ALC892 Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Monitor,,,,DELL P2210H OS,,RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.2,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel,,2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64),3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME 2.28.2,Unity 5.4.0,Unity 5.4.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3 Display Driver,,intel 2.16.0,intel 2.17.0,nouveau 0.0.16 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 7.11,3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2,2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1600x900,1600x900,1920x1080 ,,"Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2","Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS" "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,112.27,108.09,297.88 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1322.49,1286.64,1360.47 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8112,7758,24645 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,4364333,4359667,4389333 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,12249,12398,12468 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,752,788,793 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,10723.00,19544.67,21416.95 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,74.83,75.23,75.48 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5323.71,5396.14,16301.72 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1233.32,1257.77,3312.24 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,119.53,153.22,155.04 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3521.35,3601.20,15507.92 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2783.36,2745.11,10159.72 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,2484.30,2390.11,9256.33 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,16.64,16.87,72.02 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,3928,3482,4583 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,126.71,116.00,37.30 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,234,235,73 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,16.57,16.58,16.49 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,7.50,7.06,7.03 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,22.36,21.92,6.03 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,200.00,202.44,65.69 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,24.12,23.77,22.45 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,26.51,25.59,9.43