Ubuntu 12.04 AMD vs. Intel Virtualization Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme and AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 benchmarking of various Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualization options with the Precise Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of bare metal, Xen, KVM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization methods from this Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition and AMD Bulldozer systems that were running in the same configuration for the duration of testing. This Linux virtualization benchmarking is for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 12.04 AMD vs. Intel Virtualization Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution System Layer Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy DMI2 16384MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB Realtek ALC892 DELL P2210H Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.6.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 ext4 1920x1080 QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Bochs Red Hat Virtio 12288MB 16GB LLVMpipe Generic 1af4 ID 20 Red Hat Virtio device Unity 2D 5.6.0 cirrus 1.3.2 1024x768 QEMU 1.0 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Xen HVM domU v4.1.2 Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC 26GB Ensoniq ES1370 Xen HVM domU 4.1.2 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.19GHz (12 Cores) innotek VirtualBox v1.2 41GB VBOX HDD Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio Intel 82540EM Gigabit vesa 2.3.0 VirtualBox 4.1.10_Ubuntur76795 AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores) ASUS Crosshair V Formula AMD nee ATI RD890 16384MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB Realtek ALC889 DELL P2210H Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection Unity 5.6.0 radeon 6.14.99 1920x1080 QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores) Bochs Red Hat Virtio 12288MB 16GB LLVMpipe Generic 1af4 ID 20 Red Hat Virtio device Unity 2D 5.6.0 cirrus 1.3.2 1024x768 QEMU 1.0 AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.62GHz (8 Cores) innotek VirtualBox v1.2 Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC 41GB VBOX HDD Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio Intel 82540EM Gigabit vesa 2.3.0 VirtualBox 4.1.10_Ubuntur76795 Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz (8 Cores) ASUS P6T6 WS REVOLUTION Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R 6 x 2048 MB 1066MHz 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 MI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2 1024MB (715/1800MHz) Analog Devices AD1989B Realtek RTL8111/8168B 3.2.0-26-generic (x86_64) GNOME 3.2.1 NVIDIA 295.40 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40 1920x1080 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. Compiz was running on this system. - Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. Compiz was running on this system. - AMD FX-8150: KVM: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2. - 2012-07-08 17:35: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3. Compiz and Firefox were running on this system.
Ubuntu 12.04 AMD vs. Intel Virtualization nginx: Static Web Page Serving npb: UA.A npb: SP.A npb: MG.B npb: LU.A npb: IS.C npb: FT.B npb: EP.B npb: CG.B npb: BT.A openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples nero2d: Total Time crafty: Elapsed Time compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression compress-lzma: 256MB File Compression c-ray: Total Time build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile build-imagemagick: Time To Compile mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search john-the-ripper: Blowfish scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization scimark2: Composite compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: HWB Color Space graphics-magick: Blur x264: H.264 Video Encoding vpxenc: vpxenc tiobench: Rand Write - 64MB - 8 dbench: 1 compilebench: Initial Create compilebench: Compile Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 17638.33 73.12 9340.36 10158.85 15393.08 154.57 9102.76 305.52 3307.14 16396.46 74.98 21 708.09 90.96 6.06 155.28 37.37 65.71 42.07 4.89 12.14 6562 1653.30 307.91 1941.16 1062.22 25015 1357.24 87 146 85 162 118 170.44 23.54 174.62 300.55 220.11 429.00 16675.53 56.96 7007.17 8422.94 12133.88 84.97 8589.00 297.07 2941.37 14094.95 74.85 21 715.72 93.82 6.42 197.93 39.42 76.52 41.31 7.45 10.67 6270 1473.43 180.14 1737.26 957.19 21319 1322.15 85 138 83 157 113 139.51 19.67 9.57 268.33 159.19 312.79 17788.74 46.09 6944.81 7698.61 11580.19 153.99 8693.00 297.51 2841.48 14979.75 74.98 21 713.81 92.55 6.38 144.33 39.49 116.75 50.36 7.64 9.74 5657 1617.43 308.62 1928.90 1050.68 23762 1351.65 81 130 77 146 98 156.54 23.18 135.89 255.00 144.09 378.65 3505.38 2.79 1100.63 1430.53 2537.95 80.94 4871.72 207.84 675.11 3600.71 71.98 29 749.63 99.29 13.53 209.48 56.52 116.36 58.26 60.65 29.94 2179 1384.57 171.66 1644.01 907.17 5200 1258.82 66 97 62 134 90 27.03 7.94 35.86 113.94 140.54 348.64 17706.18 39.08 5441.58 4616.18 11597.69 107.53 6392.14 177.48 2481.11 11870.22 70.35 33 1038.73 105.34 8.33 152.33 46.03 91.20 56.03 6.97 16.72 6386 1066.68 79.16 1754.40 809.54 17504 631.86 64 131 67 162 114 132.08 19.86 253.23 175.65 228.54 589.92 19976.40 35.86 4927.24 4146.81 10624.59 73.72 6044.54 165.26 2339.77 10886.52 69.98 34 1050.57 107.99 8.60 182.35 46.59 97.83 53.87 11.47 14.47 6162 883.72 83.07 1639.77 748.35 14991 649.43 82 123 69 155 110 113.92 14.98 9.59 152.85 181.85 332.38 8577.56 32.48 4541.71 3554.96 9731.97 63.74 5521.19 148.88 2124.70 9603.87 61.10 38 1239.39 124.63 9.60 207.54 52.27 111.89 61.22 22.06 16.72 5366 745.59 72.65 1418.45 644.20 13268 547.28 55 105 58 133 95 83.81 15.05 40.73 113.37 144.04 485.54 21962.06 18.84 3127.74 3338.10 4651.32 124.81 3124.74 170.05 1274.21 7957.06 50.33 125 557.46 11.71 160.39 57.12 109.70 70.72 8.17 15.12 3599 1153.91 213.40 1450.45 831.80 14357 1237.67 63 111 62 134 95 96.88 12.97 194.36 268.83 199.84 361.53 OpenBenchmarking.org
NGINX Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 322.13, N = 3 SE +/- 180.29, N = 3 SE +/- 36.94, N = 3 SE +/- 78.75, N = 3 SE +/- 40.72, N = 3 SE +/- 256.40, N = 4 SE +/- 41.85, N = 3 SE +/- 44.99, N = 3 21962.06 19976.40 17788.74 17706.18 17638.33 16675.53 8577.56 3505.38
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 6.08, N = 6 SE +/- 2.58, N = 6 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 6 73.12 56.96 46.09 39.08 35.86 32.48 18.84 2.79
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 13.26, N = 3 SE +/- 462.33, N = 6 SE +/- 119.31, N = 4 SE +/- 49.80, N = 3 SE +/- 36.25, N = 3 SE +/- 33.75, N = 3 SE +/- 5.43, N = 3 SE +/- 6.52, N = 3 9340.36 7007.17 6944.81 5441.58 4927.24 4541.71 3127.74 1100.63
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 24.04, N = 3 SE +/- 629.82, N = 6 SE +/- 715.21, N = 6 SE +/- 11.80, N = 3 SE +/- 18.61, N = 3 SE +/- 267.02, N = 6 SE +/- 44.93, N = 3 SE +/- 85.61, N = 6 10158.85 8422.94 7698.61 4616.18 4146.81 3554.96 3338.10 1430.53
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 55.11, N = 3 SE +/- 484.66, N = 6 SE +/- 31.93, N = 3 SE +/- 805.88, N = 6 SE +/- 59.13, N = 3 SE +/- 104.13, N = 3 SE +/- 27.18, N = 3 SE +/- 42.99, N = 3 15393.08 12133.88 11597.69 11580.19 10624.59 9731.97 4651.32 2537.95
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: IS.C OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 1.39, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 154.57 153.99 124.81 107.53 84.97 80.94 73.72 63.74
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 2.38, N = 3 SE +/- 8.23, N = 3 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 13.78, N = 3 SE +/- 7.85, N = 3 SE +/- 14.16, N = 3 SE +/- 64.78, N = 6 SE +/- 6.77, N = 3 9102.76 8693.00 8589.00 6392.14 6044.54 5521.19 4871.72 3124.74
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: EP.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 4.22, N = 6 SE +/- 1.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 2.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.61, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 305.52 297.51 297.07 207.84 177.48 170.05 165.26 148.88
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: CG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 3.87, N = 3 SE +/- 57.92, N = 6 SE +/- 43.89, N = 6 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 6.78, N = 3 SE +/- 1.75, N = 3 SE +/- 2.04, N = 3 SE +/- 22.75, N = 6 3307.14 2941.37 2841.48 2481.11 2339.77 2124.70 1274.21 675.11
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: BT.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 43.19, N = 3 SE +/- 147.53, N = 3 SE +/- 158.44, N = 3 SE +/- 23.11, N = 3 SE +/- 73.49, N = 3 SE +/- 39.09, N = 3 SE +/- 25.67, N = 3 SE +/- 54.53, N = 3 16396.46 14979.75 14094.95 11870.22 10886.52 9603.87 7957.06 3600.71
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 SE +/- 0.28, N = 4 SE +/- 0.16, N = 4 SE +/- 0.47, N = 4 SE +/- 0.32, N = 4 SE +/- 0.07, N = 4 SE +/- 0.29, N = 4 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 74.98 74.98 74.85 71.98 70.35 69.98 61.10 50.33
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 21 21 21 29 33 34 38 125
Open FMM Nero2D Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 300 600 900 1200 1500 557.46 708.09 713.81 715.72 749.63 1038.73 1050.57 1239.39
Crafty Elapsed Time Intel Core i7 3960X AMD FX-8150 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Bare Metal Xen KVM VirtualBox 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 90.96 92.55 93.82 99.29 105.34 107.99 124.63
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 6 SE +/- 0.09, N = 5 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 6 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 6 6.06 6.38 6.42 8.33 8.60 9.60 11.71 13.53
LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 144.33 152.33 155.28 160.39 182.35 197.93 207.54 209.48
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.32, N = 3 37.37 39.42 39.49 46.03 46.59 52.27 56.52 57.12
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.96, N = 3 SE +/- 1.23, N = 3 SE +/- 1.43, N = 3 SE +/- 1.78, N = 5 SE +/- 0.87, N = 3 65.71 76.52 91.20 97.83 109.70 111.89 116.36 116.75
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.42, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 41.31 42.07 50.36 53.87 56.03 58.26 61.22 70.72
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 6 SE +/- 0.29, N = 6 SE +/- 0.13, N = 6 SE +/- 0.17, N = 6 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.32, N = 6 SE +/- 0.82, N = 3 4.89 6.97 7.45 7.64 8.17 11.47 22.06 60.65
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.30, N = 6 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 5 9.74 10.67 12.14 14.47 15.12 16.72 16.72 29.94
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 1400 2800 4200 5600 7000 SE +/- 17.15, N = 3 SE +/- 20.63, N = 3 SE +/- 125.58, N = 3 SE +/- 33.18, N = 3 SE +/- 204.91, N = 6 SE +/- 40.19, N = 3 SE +/- 54.10, N = 3 SE +/- 147.29, N = 6 6562 6386 6270 6162 5657 5366 3599 2179
SciMark Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 3.19, N = 4 SE +/- 5.47, N = 4 SE +/- 4.84, N = 4 SE +/- 19.10, N = 4 SE +/- 6.20, N = 4 SE +/- 1.60, N = 4 SE +/- 0.96, N = 4 SE +/- 13.47, N = 8 1653.30 1617.43 1473.43 1384.57 1153.91 1066.68 883.72 745.59
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.95, N = 4 SE +/- 6.32, N = 4 SE +/- 1.11, N = 4 SE +/- 0.38, N = 2 SE +/- 1.03, N = 4 SE +/- 0.09, N = 4 SE +/- 0.07, N = 4 SE +/- 0.95, N = 7 308.62 307.91 213.40 180.14 171.66 83.07 79.16 72.65
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: KVM 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 1.77, N = 4 SE +/- 3.47, N = 4 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 5.66, N = 2 SE +/- 15.87, N = 4 SE +/- 1.26, N = 4 SE +/- 9.46, N = 4 SE +/- 22.91, N = 8 1941.16 1928.90 1754.40 1737.26 1644.01 1639.77 1450.45 1418.45
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 1.30, N = 4 SE +/- 1.40, N = 4 SE +/- 1.82, N = 4 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 SE +/- 5.49, N = 4 SE +/- 0.99, N = 4 SE +/- 0.36, N = 4 SE +/- 10.03, N = 8 1062.22 1050.68 957.19 907.17 831.80 809.54 748.35 644.20
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 101.71, N = 3 SE +/- 146.01, N = 3 SE +/- 343.26, N = 4 SE +/- 51.41, N = 3 SE +/- 224.77, N = 5 SE +/- 150.42, N = 3 SE +/- 46.28, N = 3 SE +/- 93.66, N = 3 25015 23762 21319 17504 14991 14357 13268 5200
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.38, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 1.94, N = 3 SE +/- 2.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.48, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 1.45, N = 3 1357.24 1351.65 1322.15 1258.82 1237.67 649.43 631.86 547.28
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.53, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 87 85 82 81 66 64 63 55
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: KVM 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.53, N = 3 146 138 131 130 123 111 105 97
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 85 83 77 69 67 62 62 58
GraphicsMagick Operation: HWB Color Space OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 162 162 157 155 146 134 134 133
GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 118 114 113 110 98 95 95 90
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 1.43, N = 3 SE +/- 2.52, N = 3 SE +/- 1.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.57, N = 3 SE +/- 1.65, N = 3 SE +/- 0.83, N = 3 SE +/- 1.69, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 170.44 156.54 139.51 132.08 113.92 96.88 83.81 27.03
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: KVM 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 23.54 23.18 19.86 19.67 15.05 14.98 12.97 7.94
Threaded I/O Tester Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 1.87, N = 4 SE +/- 0.88, N = 4 SE +/- 0.29, N = 4 SE +/- 0.34, N = 4 SE +/- 0.39, N = 4 SE +/- 0.55, N = 8 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 SE +/- 0.04, N = 4 253.23 194.36 174.62 135.89 40.73 35.86 9.59 9.57
Dbench Client Count: 1 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 1.71, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 300.55 268.83 268.33 255.00 175.65 152.85 113.94 113.37
Compile Bench Test: Initial Create OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal 2012-07-08 17:35 AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 2.32, N = 3 SE +/- 6.99, N = 3 SE +/- 3.48, N = 3 SE +/- 4.02, N = 6 SE +/- 2.38, N = 4 SE +/- 1.77, N = 3 SE +/- 2.35, N = 3 SE +/- 2.72, N = 3 228.54 220.11 199.84 181.85 159.19 144.09 144.04 140.54
Compile Bench Test: Compile OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen 2012-07-08 17:35 Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox AMD FX-8150: KVM Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM 130 260 390 520 650 SE +/- 10.98, N = 3 SE +/- 25.45, N = 6 SE +/- 6.76, N = 3 SE +/- 6.17, N = 3 SE +/- 4.18, N = 3 SE +/- 4.86, N = 5 SE +/- 4.87, N = 6 SE +/- 4.32, N = 6 589.92 485.54 429.00 378.65 361.53 348.64 332.38 312.79
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