Debian Squeeze vs. Wheezy Benchmarking Performance Intel Core i7 720Q testing with a LENOVO TP-6N and NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy/sid and Debian GNU/Linux of Squeeze 6.0.5 and Wheezy development versions. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. Debian Linux: Squeeze: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB 1066MHz, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M, Audio: Conexant ID 5069, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.15, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Debian Linux: Wheezy: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR3-1066MHz, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO TP-6N, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC/2CV102HD, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M, Audio: Intel PCH HD Audio, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.0.5 OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.5, Kernel: 8.1-1-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ufs Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO TP-6N, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC 2CV102HD, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M, Audio: Intel 5 /3400 HD Audio, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.2.3 OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy/sid, Kernel: 9.0-1-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: vesa 2.3.1, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ufs Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 84.24 |========================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 92.03 |============================================= Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 25.97 |============= Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 26.92 |============= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 1874 |============================================== Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 514 |============= Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 504 |============ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 2981.69 |================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 3772.53 |=========================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 3752.43 |=========================================== Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 1848.41 |===================== Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 2326.95 |=========================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 18451589.67 |======================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 18079002.10 |====================================== Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 11429445.07 |======================== Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 11370341.87 |======================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze ... 695.51 |============================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy .... 716.79 |============================================= Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy . 470.69 |============================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze ... 204.54 |=================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .... 260.01 |============================================= Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy . 163.64 |============================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze ... 188.47 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .... 157.30 |====================================== Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy . 106.30 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze ... 1086.00 |========================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .... 1166.14 |============================================ Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy . 773.07 |============================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze ... 1217.70 |============================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy .... 1206.75 |============================================ Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy . 817.28 |============================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze ... 780.84 |============================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy .... 793.75 |============================================= Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy . 493.18 |============================ John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 6780333 |========================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 7016333 |=========================================== Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 6537667 |======================================== Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 5673000 |=================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 918.61 |======================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 1007.06 |=========================================== Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 581.30 |========================= Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 718.12 |=============================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 9030 |============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 8737 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 8787 |============================================= Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 8074 |========================================= Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 7753 |======================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 116.03 |============================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 78.12 |============================= Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 116.83 |============================================ Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 79.14 |============================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze .... 42.03 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy ..... 42.28 |============================================= Debian kFreeBSD: Squeeze . 10.70 |=========== Debian kFreeBSD: Wheezy .. 9.95 |=========== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 254 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 280 |================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 109.99 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 107.51 |============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 13303.32 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 12878.91 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 110.17 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 92.02 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 142.42 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 109.35 |==================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 22.76 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 23.09 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 38 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 41 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 76 |============================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 89 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 38 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 41 |=================================================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Wheezy . 58.29 |================================================= VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 9.43 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 10.00 |================================================ FFmpeg 0.10 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 16.11 |================================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 15.78 |=============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 19.42 |========================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 22.52 |================================================ CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 3.69 |================================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 3.19 |========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 85.70 |============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 89.67 |================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 4247.76 |==================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 5360.20 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 2724.15 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 2801.70 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 2835.80 |============================================= Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 2874.52 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 20.76 |================================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 20.64 |================================================ Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 693.43 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 655.82 |============================================ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 213.98 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 214.18 |=============================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 118.47 |============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 120.39 |=============================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 252.97 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 250.43 |=============================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 220.00 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 211.92 |============================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 29.34 |================================================ Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 28.40 |============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux: Squeeze . 13.83 |=============================================== Debian Linux: Wheezy .. 14.12 |================================================