Intel Sandy Bridge - Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Ubuntu 12.04

Intel Core i5-2520M Sandy Bridge benchmarks under clean x86_64 installations of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Besides comparing stock Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Linux performance, also added in Git master tests of the Intel Linux graphics stack - Linux 3.4 Git, Mesa 8.1-devel, libdrm, xf86-video-intel Git DDX. Also a GCC 4.8 snapshot. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com in May by Michael Larabel.

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Intel Sandy Bridge - Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 Intel Core i5-2520M Sandy Bridge benchmarks under clean x86_64 installations of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Besides comparing stock Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Linux performance, also added in Git master tests of the Intel Linux graphics stack - Linux 3.4 Git, Mesa 8.1-devel, libdrm, xf86-video-intel Git DDX. Also a GCC 4.8 snapshot. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com in May by Michael Larabel. ,,"Ubuntu 12.04","Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master","Ubuntu 11.10" Processor,,Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C Chipset,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB Disk,,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 Graphics,,Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) Audio,,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5 Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 11.10 Kernel,,3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64),3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 4.22.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.10.4 Display Driver,,intel 2.17.0,intel 2.19.0,intel 2.15.901 OpenGL,,3.0 Mesa 8.0.2,2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-7bf3fe8),2.1 Mesa 7.11 Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.8.0 20120429,GCC 4.6.1 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900 ,,"Ubuntu 12.04","Ubuntu 12.04 + Git Master","Ubuntu 11.10" "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,25.66,26.73,13.64 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1600 x 900 (FPS)",HIB,80.30,82.23,42.90 "Cairo Performance Demos - Demo: Gears (FPS)",HIB,98.90,111.81,61.45 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,31.16,32.10,18.32 "Warsow - Resolution: 1600 x 900 (FPS)",HIB,34.03,35.40,20.97 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,60.85,62.38,38.99 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,203.00,324.33,204.81 "Cairo Performance Demos - Demo: Gradients (FPS)",HIB,68.36,65.91,45.61 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1600 x 900 (FPS)",HIB,21.13,21.40,14.67 "cairo-perf-trace - Cairo Trace: GNOME Terminal Vim (sec)",LIB,13.48,13.86,19.04 "cairo-perf-trace - Cairo Trace: Poppler (sec)",LIB,5.27,5.34,7.34 "cairo-perf-trace - Cairo Trace: Firefox Canvas (sec)",LIB,50.97,51.15,61.75 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,19358.34,19945.25,17873.46 "Cairo Performance Demos - Demo: Charts (FPS)",HIB,11.95,13.15,12.00 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,26110.60,27672.75,28365.09 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,7829,7844,7323 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,230,230,241 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,116.41,115.66,119.47 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,58.71,58.62,57.22 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,102,103,101 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,22.17,22.23,22.42 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,129,129,128 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,16.04,16.04,16.05 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,41,41,41 "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,2888.33,2744.96,2647.83 "Cairo Performance Demos - Demo: Fish (FPS)",HIB,1.12,1.26,1.04