Slackware 14.0 Beta (Slackware64 64-bit) vs. Other Linux Distros Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on several popular Linux distributions compared to Slackware 14.0 Beta 64-bit (Slackware64). Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 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, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CentOS 6.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Intel Patsburg HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 6.2, Kernel: 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 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 Slackware 14 Beta: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Slackware 14.0, Kernel: 3.2.23 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.1 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 373.16 |================================================ CentOS 6.2 ........ 350.98 |============================================= Fedora 17 ......... 394.44 |=================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 334.93 |=========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 2705.06 |=============================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 2881.10 |================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 2777.18 |================================================ Slackware 14 Beta . 2805.12 |================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 3830.96 |================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 3839.69 |================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 3527.57 |============================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 3511.16 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 49.12 |================================================ CentOS 6.2 ........ 53.39 |==================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 52.31 |=================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 49.12 |================================================ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 5473.60 |============================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 5959.47 |================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 5737.92 |================================================ Slackware 14 Beta . 4850.30 |========================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 15.62 |=================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 15.76 |=================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 16.08 |==================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 16.01 |==================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 26208375.50 |=========================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 28060470.10 |============================================== Fedora 17 ......... 25806284.87 |========================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 22855850.80 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 1264.24 |================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 1218.56 |================================================ Fedora 17 ......... 1252.89 |================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 1077.82 |=========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 539.23 |=================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 325.63 |=============================== Fedora 17 ......... 412.19 |======================================= Slackware 14 Beta . 345.47 |================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 287.29 |============================================= CentOS 6.2 ........ 326.27 |=================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 315.57 |================================================= Slackware 14 Beta . 293.03 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 1955.26 |================================================ CentOS 6.2 ........ 2015.91 |================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 1946.03 |================================================ Slackware 14 Beta . 1724.73 |=========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 2362.50 |================================================= CentOS 6.2 ........ 2250.35 |=============================================== Fedora 17 ......... 2416.01 |================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 2033.69 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 1176.92 |================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 1174.66 |================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 1174.66 |================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 992.20 |========================================== Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6.2 . 2297 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 106 |====================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 102 |==================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 104 |===================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 90 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 179 |====================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 169 |=================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 178 |====================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 156 |=============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 102 |====================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 101 |===================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 102 |====================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 89 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 1617.25 |================================================ CentOS 6.2 ........ 1679.33 |================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 1601.01 |================================================ Slackware 14 Beta . 1365.25 |========================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 30.67 |================================================= CentOS 6.2 ........ 32.48 |==================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 23.46 |====================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 27.92 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 5.77 |============================================= CentOS 6.2 ........ 6.16 |================================================ Slackware 14 Beta . 6.84 |===================================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 20.02 |=================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 30.17 |==================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 20.61 |==================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 23.82 |========================================= OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .. 91.85 |==================================================== CentOS 6.2 ........ 91.15 |==================================================== Fedora 17 ......... 91.48 |==================================================== Slackware 14 Beta . 77.05 |============================================