Fedora 17 vs. Ubuntu 12.10 ARM OMAP4 ARMv7 rev 10 testing with a OMAP4 Panda board and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300) on Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Fedora 17 - Xfce: Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: LLVMpipe OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.4.2-3.fc17.armv7hl.omap (armv7l), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.0, Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Fedora 17 - Console: Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.4.2-3.fc17.armv7hl.omap (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity: Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.4.0-201-omap4 (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Ubuntu 12.10 - Console: Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.4.0-201-omap4 (armv7l), Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 2.05 |================================================ Fedora 17 - Console .... 2.04 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 2.02 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 2.04 |================================================ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 252.27 |===================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 252.31 |===================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 550.61 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 541.01 |============================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 143.49 |============================================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 144.05 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 91.95 |============================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 95.33 |============================== GMPbench 0.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce .... 131.50 |================================================= Fedora 17 - Console . 131.85 |================================================= CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 1058.02 |=========================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 1057.73 |=========================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 1757.83 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 1727.88 |============================================ CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 2540.14 |============================ Fedora 17 - Console .... 2541.70 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 4145.90 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 4019.06 |============================================ CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 2022.07 |=========================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 2027.32 |=========================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 3338.94 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 3367.77 |============================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 51.27 |============================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 82.53 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 83.47 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 55.01 |================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 77.09 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 77.09 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 12.36 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 18.49 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 18.69 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 40.13 |========================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 74.15 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 75.30 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 45.54 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 76.15 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 77.30 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 103.30 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 166.81 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 169.01 |============================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 1.00 |=============================================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 1.00 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 1.02 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 1.02 |================================================ x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 2.84 |============================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 2.97 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 4.59 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 4.58 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 9 |============================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 9 |============================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 15 |================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 15 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 5 |============================ Fedora 17 - Console .... 5 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 9 |=================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 9 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 12 |============================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 12 |============================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 20 |================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 20 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 17 |=============================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 17 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 27 |================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 27 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 3 |=============================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 3 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 5 |=================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 5 |=================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 90.44 |=========================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 88.15 |=========================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 151.59 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 146.04 |============================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 576 |================================ Fedora 17 - Console .... 585 |================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 870 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 894 |================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 1243.76 |============================================= Fedora 17 - Console .... 1240.80 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 729.37 |========================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 723.69 |========================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 4163 |================================================ Fedora 17 - Console .... 4035 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 2417 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 2517 |============================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 0.13 |====================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 0.29 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 0.27 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 183.43 |============================================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 180.21 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 109.45 |=========================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 109.13 |=========================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 330.53 |============================================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 323.98 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 179.35 |========================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 178.13 |========================= OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 2.70 |============================ Fedora 17 - Console .... 2.70 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 4.60 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 4.60 |================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 6.34 |=============================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 6.37 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 9.87 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 9.95 |================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 212.48 |=================================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 219.40 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 276.88 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 268.68 |============================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 158.80 |================================ Fedora 17 - Console .... 175.79 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 219.99 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 224.99 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 17 - Xfce ....... 1.26 |============================== Fedora 17 - Console .... 1.54 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Unity ... 2.03 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 - Console . 2.05 |================================================