AHCI VS IDE
AMD E-350 testing with a Acer JE40_BZ and AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB on SUSE LINUX 12.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


AHCI: 

	Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless

	OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.5.0-TuoLei-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

IDE: 

	Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless

	OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.5.0-TuoLei-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 2.94 |=========================================
IDE .. 4.73 |==================================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 941.78  |==============================================
IDE .. 1281.08 |===============================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 7.10 |====================================================
IDE .. 9.07 |==================================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 213 |===================================================================
IDE .. 179 |========================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 59.68 |=================================================================
IDE .. 50.80 |=======================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 710.89 |========================================================
IDE .. 810.97 |================================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 50.10 |=================================================================
IDE .. 46.96 |=============================================================


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 32.34 |=============================================================
IDE .. 34.37 |=================================================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AHCI . 42.29 |==============================================================
IDE .. 44.59 |=================================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 1123.92 |============================================================
IDE .. 1182.04 |===============================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 23.01 |=================================================================
IDE .. 21.93 |==============================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 54.53 |==============================================================
IDE .. 56.87 |=================================================================


Flexible IO Tester 1.57
Test: Example Network Job
Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better
AHCI . 30.26 |===============================================================
IDE .. 31.16 |=================================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 17.49 |=================================================================
IDE .. 17.11 |================================================================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 6
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 19.54 |=================================================================
IDE .. 19.19 |================================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 50.63 |================================================================
IDE .. 51.44 |=================================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 60.07 |================================================================
IDE .. 61.03 |=================================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 62.43 |=================================================================
IDE .. 61.85 |================================================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 126301 |===============================================================
IDE .. 127396 |================================================================