Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/11 and Fedora 17 and CentOS (EL) 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 64-bit editions on same hardware being tested. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Solaris 11 Express vs. CentOS vs. Ubuntu
Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/11 and Fedora 17 and CentOS (EL) 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 64-bit editions on same hardware being tested. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.
,,"Solaris 11 11.11 Express","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3","CentOS 6.2","Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy","Fedora 17"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores)
Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,INTEL DX79SI,Intel DX79SI
Memory,,2 x 4096MB 1600MHz,8192MB,8192MB,2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz,8192MB,8192MB
Disk,,OCZ VERTEX OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,OCZ VERTEX 1.30 + Corsair VoyagerGT 1100,64GB OCZ VERTEX
Graphics,,ATI RV730 PRO 256MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz)
Monitor,,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W
Chipset,,,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2
Audio,,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Intel Patsburg HD Audio,Intel Patsburg HD Audio,Realtek ALC892
Network,,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.2.3,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS,,Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 X86,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,CentOS 6.2,Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy/sid,Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)
Kernel,,5.11 (i686),3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64),2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64),9.0-1-amd64 (x86_64),3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64)
Desktop,,GNOME 2.30.2,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.10.0,GNOME 2.28.2,,GNOME Shell 3.4.1
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.10.4,,X Server 1.12.0
Display Driver,,ati 6.14.1,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.2,radeon 6.14.4,radeon 6.14.99
OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 7.10.2,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4
Compiler,,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.5.3,GCC 4.4.6 20110731,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7.0 20120507
File-System,,zfs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ufs,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,,1920x1080
,,"Solaris 11 11.11 Express","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3","CentOS 6.2","Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy","Fedora 17"
"BYTE Unix Benchmark - Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 (LPS)",HIB,19420677.50,26208375.50,26378310.80,28060470.10,25701496.80,25806284.87
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,43.30,30.67,30.13,32.48,23.91,23.46
"FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,4008.78,5473.60,4698.74,5959.47,5615.65,5737.92
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,7.57,5.77,5.88,6.16,,
"Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,3510,,,2297,,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,110,106,106,102,,104
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,143,179,178,169,,178
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,90,102,101,101,,102
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,524.09,1617.25,1738.78,1679.33,1599.63,1601.01
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,351.61,373.16,378.48,350.98,242.33,394.44
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2842.77,2705.06,2712.48,2881.10,2945.94,2777.18
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3849.86,3830.96,3763.18,3839.69,3712.11,3527.57
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,9.86,49.12,50.33,53.39,31.94,52.31
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,91.50,91.85,91.70,91.15,26,91.48
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1231.64,1264.24,1288.24,1218.56,1313.44,1252.89
"SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,369.94,539.23,542.30,325.63,413.31,412.19
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,235.88,287.29,330.06,326.27,308.76,315.57
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,2007.87,1955.26,2017.76,2015.91,2180.56,1946.03
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,2421.50,2362.50,2373.02,2250.35,2489.86,2416.01
"SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1123.03,1176.92,1178.05,1174.66,1174.70,1174.66
"Sudokut - Total Time (sec)",LIB,43.69,20.02,20.07,30.17,,20.61
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,16.49,15.62,15.55,15.76,,16.08