Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Performance benchmarks between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 versus a development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Both using x86_64 versions and tested across three different systems using an Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme, a low-end consumer Sandy Bridge system, and a dual AMD Opteron configuration. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.
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Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network Monitor OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores) HP 161C Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM 1 x 4096 MB 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) Intel 6 /C200 Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.2 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME 2.28.2 X Server 1.10.4 intel 2.16.0 2.1 Mesa 7.11 GCC 4.4.6 ext4 1600x900 4096MB IDT 92HD81B1X5 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.4.0 X Server 1.11.3 intel 2.17.0 3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2 GCC 4.6 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy DMI2 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/702MHz) Intel Patsburg HD Audio DELL P2210H Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.2 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME 2.28.2 X Server 1.10.4 nouveau 0.0.16 2.1 Mesa 7.11 GCC 4.4.6 1920x1080 16384MB Realtek ALC892 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.4.0 X Server 1.11.3 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores) TYAN S2932/S2932-E NVIDIA MCP55 4096MB 165GB Western Digital WD1600YS-01S ATI Device 9456 1024MB ATI RV770 HDMI Audio DELL S2409W RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.2 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME 2.28.2 X Server 1.10.4 radeon 6.14.2 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.4.6 AMD nee ATI Device 9456 1024MB ATI R6xx HDMI Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.4.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled. - Core i5 2520M: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. - Core i7 3960X: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled. - Core i7 3960X: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. - 2 x Opteron 2384: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled. - 2 x Opteron 2384: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system.
c-ray: Total Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 encode-flac: WAV To FLAC compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: MD5 john-the-ripper: Blowfish openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance apache: Static Web Page Serving postmark: Disk Transaction Performance iozone: 4Kb - 8GB - Write Performance mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver npb: BT.A npb: CG.B npb: IS.C npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 126.71 234 16.57 7.50 8112 22.36 200.00 4364333 12249 752 74.83 10723.00 3928 112.27 24.12 26.51 1322.49 5323.71 1233.32 119.53 3521.35 2783.36 2484.30 16.64 116.00 235 16.58 7.06 7758 21.92 202.44 4359667 12398 788 75.23 19544.67 3482 108.09 23.77 25.59 1286.64 5396.14 1257.77 153.22 3601.20 2745.11 2390.11 16.87 39.58 73 16.59 7.50 26081 5.97 64.21 4367667 12287 752 75.23 15002.44 4166 372.27 22.72 9.63 1450.62 16643.45 3307.25 122.45 13571.28 10466.75 9499.28 72.49 37.30 73 16.49 7.03 24645 6.03 65.69 4389333 12468 793 75.48 21416.95 4583 297.88 22.45 9.43 1360.47 16301.72 3312.24 155.04 15507.92 10159.72 9256.33 72.02 57.24 115 26.49 10.11 16272 9.24 86.06 2505333 11888 760 51.03 8554.14 2409 61.18 36.86 14.78 476.07 9649.97 1861.19 63.81 7519.49 4439.71 3537.06 35.01 52.10 106 26.04 10.02 15851 9.32 84.80 2505667 12006 807 51.13 12999.65 2499 62.28 36.39 15.30 478.53 10468.79 1559.88 71.73 8244.12 4371.23 3941.47 36.01 OpenBenchmarking.org
C-Ray Total Time Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 37.30 39.58 52.10 57.24 116.00 126.71
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 SE +/- 4.51, N = 3 73 73 106 115 234 235
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 16.49 16.59 16.57 16.58 26.04 26.49
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 7.03 7.50 7.06 7.50 10.02 10.11
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 439.86, N = 4 SE +/- 352.48, N = 6 SE +/- 45.45, N = 3 SE +/- 32.51, N = 3 SE +/- 115.66, N = 3 SE +/- 26.72, N = 3 26081 24645 16272 15851 8112 7758
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.38, N = 4 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 5.97 6.03 9.24 9.32 21.92 22.36
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.54, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 SE +/- 1.11, N = 3 SE +/- 1.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.66, N = 3 64.21 65.69 84.80 86.06 200.00 202.44
John The Ripper Test: Traditional DES Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 900K 1800K 2700K 3600K 4500K SE +/- 666.67, N = 3 SE +/- 2728.45, N = 3 SE +/- 1333.33, N = 3 SE +/- 2603.42, N = 3 SE +/- 4333.33, N = 3 SE +/- 2403.70, N = 3 4389333 4367667 4364333 4359667 2505667 2505333
John The Ripper Test: MD5 Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 7.36, N = 3 SE +/- 18.66, N = 3 SE +/- 9.35, N = 3 SE +/- 8.09, N = 3 12468 12287 12398 12249 12006 11888
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 807 760 793 752 788 752
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.06, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 4 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 SE +/- 0.16, N = 4 SE +/- 0.11, N = 4 SE +/- 0.03, N = 4 75.48 75.23 75.23 74.83 51.13 51.03
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 28.21, N = 3 SE +/- 1601.77, N = 6 SE +/- 7.44, N = 3 SE +/- 126.45, N = 3 SE +/- 195.56, N = 5 SE +/- 143.71, N = 4 21416.95 15002.44 19544.67 10723.00 12999.65 8554.14
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 139.00, N = 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 97.16, N = 10 SE +/- 59.47, N = 10 SE +/- 108.05, N = 10 SE +/- 37.23, N = 10 4583 4166 3928 3482 2499 2409
IOzone Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 6.18, N = 6 SE +/- 1.79, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 372.27 297.88 112.27 108.09 62.28 61.18
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 22.45 22.72 23.77 24.12 36.39 36.86
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 6 SE +/- 0.38, N = 6 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 9.43 9.63 14.78 15.30 25.59 26.51
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.62, N = 3 SE +/- 19.33, N = 6 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 SE +/- 1.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.93, N = 3 1450.62 1360.47 1322.49 1286.64 478.53 476.07
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: BT.A Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 3.69, N = 3 SE +/- 75.75, N = 3 SE +/- 214.99, N = 6 SE +/- 159.15, N = 3 SE +/- 5.24, N = 3 SE +/- 70.07, N = 3 16643.45 16301.72 10468.79 9649.97 5396.14 5323.71
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: CG.B Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 9.11, N = 3 SE +/- 12.11, N = 3 SE +/- 36.36, N = 3 SE +/- 172.25, N = 6 SE +/- 1.13, N = 3 SE +/- 3.08, N = 3 3312.24 3307.25 1861.19 1559.88 1257.77 1233.32
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: IS.C Core i7 3960X Core i5 2520M 2 x Opteron 2384 OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 1.03, N = 3 155.04 122.45 153.22 119.53 71.73 63.81
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 25.35, N = 3 SE +/- 140.87, N = 3 SE +/- 178.24, N = 6 SE +/- 92.43, N = 3 SE +/- 47.78, N = 3 SE +/- 22.60, N = 3 15507.92 13571.28 8244.12 7519.49 3601.20 3521.35
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 7.06, N = 3 SE +/- 5.74, N = 3 SE +/- 2.19, N = 3 SE +/- 112.56, N = 6 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 5.17, N = 3 10466.75 10159.72 4439.71 4371.23 2783.36 2745.11
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 40.01, N = 3 SE +/- 33.28, N = 3 SE +/- 115.08, N = 6 SE +/- 22.27, N = 3 SE +/- 10.39, N = 3 SE +/- 8.76, N = 3 9499.28 9256.33 3941.47 3537.06 2484.30 2390.11
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A Core i7 3960X 2 x Opteron 2384 Core i5 2520M OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 72.49 72.02 36.01 35.01 16.87 16.64
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