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.
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Solaris 11 Express vs. Fedora 17. Intel Core i7,
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",1234.46,1232.09,1230.15,1229.87
"Fedora 17",1263.44,1248.28,1250.8,1249.05
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",370.26,368.98,370.26,370.26
"Fedora 17",412.98,411.4,411.4,412.98
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",237.02,236.36,236.36,233.78
"Fedora 17",326.58,310.01,313.42,312.28
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",2017.73,2007.84,2007.84,1998.05
"Fedora 17",1978.74,1932.08,1941.23,1932.08
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",2424.24,2424.24,2413.27,2424.24
"Fedora 17",2424.24,2413.27,2413.27,2413.27
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",1123.03,1123.03,1123.03,1123.03
"Fedora 17",1174.66,1174.66,1174.66,1174.66
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",7.7505640983582,7.5086870193481,7.5081059932709,7.5078148841858,7.5565390586853
"Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher",
Lower Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",3540,3500,3490
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",17.316523790359,16.29029083252,16.030663013458,16.339073896408
"Fedora 17",16.009052991867,16.011352062225,16.207686901093
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",523.862904,524.133701,524.269722
"Fedora 17",1603.838476,1594.904612,1604.281165
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",348.32,352.45,354.05
"Fedora 17",394.22,391.42,397.67
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",2855.37,2838.29,2834.66
"Fedora 17",2779.47,2775.85,2776.23
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",3858.56,3853.47,3837.54
"Fedora 17",3530.05,3532.54,3520.13
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",9.87,9.82,9.88
"Fedora 17",52.55,52.32,52.07
"FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",3996.2294907717,4022.0487036345,4008.0570776589
"Fedora 17",5741.5065979179,5721.9940830685,5750.2573612548
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",531,268,179,149,165,167,203,185,164,174
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Sharpen",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",110,110,110
"Fedora 17",104,104,104
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Resizing",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",143,143,143
"Fedora 17",178,178,177
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",90,90,90
"Fedora 17",102,101,102
"Tachyon 0.98.9 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",8.9091,8.9476,8.9579
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",43.266,43.301,43.336
"Fedora 17",23.606,23.62,23.164
"OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",91.1,91.2,92.6,91.1
"Fedora 17",92,91.8,91,91.1
"BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 - Computational Test: Dhrystone 2",
Higher Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",19417139,19476133.5,19368760
"Fedora 17",25809937.7,25776622.4,25832294.5
"Sudokut 0.4 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Solaris 11 11.11 Express",43.729322910309,43.710466861725,43.620958089828
"Fedora 17",20.544494867325,20.6707072258,20.627870082855