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) and Arch Linux using the new 2012 July media. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta 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) and Arch Linux using the new 2012 July media. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
,,"Fedora 17","CentOS 6.2","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Slackware 14 Beta","Arch Linux"
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)
Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI
Chipset,,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2,Intel Xeon E5/Core
Memory,,8192MB,2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz,8192MB,2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz,8192MB
Disk,,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Intel Patsburg HD Audio,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892
Monitor,,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W
Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS,,Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle),CentOS 6.2,Ubuntu 12.04,Slackware 14.0,Linux
Kernel,,3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64),2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64),3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64),3.2.23 (x86_64),3.4.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)
Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.4.1,GNOME 2.28.2,Unity 5.10.0,Xfce 4.10,
Display Server,,X Server 1.12.0,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.12.3,
Display Driver,,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.2,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.4,radeon 6.14.6
OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4,
Compiler,,GCC 4.7.0 20120507,GCC 4.4.6 20110731,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.7.1 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0,GCC 4.7.1 20120721
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"Fedora 17","CentOS 6.2","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Slackware 14 Beta","Arch Linux"
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,91.48,91.15,91.85,77.05,91.95
"Sudokut - Total Time (sec)",LIB,20.61,30.17,20.02,23.82,21.46
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,,6.16,5.77,6.84,5.79
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,23.46,32.48,30.67,27.92,23.20
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1601.01,1679.33,1617.25,1365.25,1583.88
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,102,101,102,89,104
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,178,169,179,156,181
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,104,102,106,90,106
"Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,,2297,,,
"SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1174.66,1174.66,1176.92,992.20,1179.18
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,2416.01,2250.35,2362.50,2033.69,2449.41
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1946.03,2015.91,1955.26,1724.73,2089.77
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,315.57,326.27,287.29,293.03,323.83
"SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,412.19,325.63,539.23,345.47,411.80
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1252.89,1218.56,1264.24,1077.82,1290.80
"BYTE Unix Benchmark - Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 (LPS)",HIB,25806284.87,28060470.10,26208375.50,22855850.80,
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,16.08,15.76,15.62,16.01,15.88
"FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,5737.92,5959.47,5473.60,4850.30,5741.54
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,52.31,53.39,49.12,49.12,51.03
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3527.57,3839.69,3830.96,3511.16,3638.09
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2777.18,2881.10,2705.06,2805.12,2876.97
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,394.44,350.98,373.16,334.93,401.40