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 |===============================================