Intel Ivy Bridge Linux Virtualization

Intel Core i7-3770K testing with a ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0 and Intel Ivy Bridge on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Running KVM virtualization on i7-3770K host for a future article on Phoronix.com looking at the KVM and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization performance with Intel Ivy Bridge hardware.

Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1205309-SU-IVYVIRTUA90
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May 03 2012
 
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May 03 2012
 
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Intel Ivy Bridge Linux Virtualization, "Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",24527.59,24035.52,24025.73 "Linux KVM",16947.51,16960.29,16794.31 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",4323.07,4421.94,4428.82 "PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 - TPC-B Transactions Per Second", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",3048.437151,3120.194251,3097.014042 "Linux KVM",1582.794298,1578.197963,1586.743488 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",1159.285292,1188.897846,1173.227632 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",99.8,101,100.7,99.8 "Linux KVM",99.2,100.3,99.9,99.8 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "Bare Metal",12.860771894455,12.894811153412,12.896187067032,12.852612018585,12.97349190712 "Linux KVM",13.011876821518,13.012881994247,12.984594106674,12.942620992661,12.946943044662 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",30.756936788559,31.68067908287,28.987133979797,31.390393972397,31.361413955688,30.568480014801 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "Bare Metal",81,81,81 "Linux KVM",81,82,81 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",202,198,205 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Bare Metal",8.4811880588531,7.6822800636292,7.8270330429077,7.8275818824768,7.779326915741,7.6788010597229 "Linux KVM",7.9903290271759,7.9353959560394,7.8361508846283 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",19.582700967789,22.556588888168,19.081645011902,22.067215919495,18.707147836685,19.352810144424 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Bare Metal",44.721,44.74,44.756 "Linux KVM",46.456,46.464,46.48 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",57.689,57.847,57.711 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Bare Metal",80.737666130066,78.948362827301,79.105002164841 "Linux KVM",91.20011806488,89.31244802475,89.274489164352 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",164.90094900131,160.78423190117,160.04369521141 "7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",21289,21277,21429 "Linux KVM",18386,18390,18337 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",7527,7493,7453 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",1646.1128,1630.16359,1637.912427 "Linux KVM",1624.783322,1618.664325,1627.019612 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",886.155094,892.892888,906.912042 "x264 2011-12-06 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",147.95,152.8,152.25 "Linux KVM",126.59,126.16,129.14 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",14.07,14.25,13.87 "VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 - vpxenc", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",27.52,27.59,27.43 "Linux KVM",23.06,22.9,22.63 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",5.66,5.94,6.03 "John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",6000,6000,5930 "Linux KVM",5798,5856,5904 "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",5624.0785070343,5618.1678399169,5653.1222849538 "Linux KVM",5634.4817531668,5598.7822179742,5616.5320085577 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",5331.0203732807,5423.9245197414,5259.658234434 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",46.9,46.84,46.82 "Linux KVM",45.3,43.38,44.88 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",41.38,40.29,40.62 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",6180.61,6093.22,6049.8 "Linux KVM",5903.69,5777.68,5952.84 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",5615.81,5578.02,5594.09 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",204.11,203.78,203.4 "Linux KVM",135.89,135.84,134.96 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",127.68,129.28,126.46 "OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",27.5,27.7,27.7 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",19,19,19 "OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",123.6,121.4,121.2 "VirtualBox 4.1.12",36.3,36.6,36.6 "Nexuiz 2.5.2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On", Higher Results Are Better "Bare Metal",38.1460576,38.0201832,38.0236988