Solaris 11 Express vs. Fedora 17. Intel Core i7
Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/11 and Fedora 17. 64-bit editions on same hardware being tested. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Fedora 17: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection

	OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Solaris 11 11.11 Express: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Memory: 2 x 4096MB 1600MHz, Disk: OCZ VERTEX OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: ATI RV730 PRO 256MB, Monitor: DELL S2409W

	OS: Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 X86, Kernel: 5.11 (i686), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: ati 6.14.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 52.31 |=============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 9.86  |========


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 1601.01 |===========================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 524.09  |==============


Sudokut 0.4
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 20.61 |=====================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 43.69 |=============================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 23.46 |========================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 43.30 |=============================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 5737.92 |===========================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 4008.78 |==============================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 315.57 |============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 235.88 |=================================


BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6
Computational Test: Dhrystone 2
LPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 25806284.87 |=======================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 19420677.50 |=============================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 178 |===============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 143 |======================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 102 |===============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 90  |=========================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: EP.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 394.44 |============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 351.61 |=======================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 412.19 |============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 369.94 |=======================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: SP.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 3527.57 |=======================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 3849.86 |===========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 104 |============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 110 |===============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 1174.66 |===========================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 1123.03 |=========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 1946.03 |==========================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 2007.87 |===========================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 16.08 |============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 16.49 |=============================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: MG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 2777.18 |==========================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 2842.77 |===========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 1252.89 |===========================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 1231.64 |==========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 2416.01 |===========================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 2421.50 |===========================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 17 ................ 91.48 |=============================================
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 91.50 |=============================================


Tachyon 0.98.9
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 8.94 |==============================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 7.57 |==============================================


Gcrypt Library 1.4.4
CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher
Microseconds < Lower Is Better
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 3510 |==============================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 219 |===============================================