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.

Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1207296-SU-ARCHLINUX98
Jump To Table - Results

View

Do Not Show Noisy Results
Do Not Show Results With Incomplete Data
Do Not Show Results With Little Change/Spread
List Notable Results

Limit displaying results to tests within:

Bioinformatics 2 Tests
C/C++ Compiler Tests 7 Tests
CPU Massive 7 Tests
Creator Workloads 3 Tests
Cryptography 2 Tests
Fortran Tests 2 Tests
HPC - High Performance Computing 4 Tests
Multi-Core 3 Tests
Scientific Computing 3 Tests
Server CPU Tests 4 Tests
Single-Threaded 4 Tests

Statistics

Show Overall Harmonic Mean(s)
Show Overall Geometric Mean
Show Geometric Means Per-Suite/Category
Show Wins / Losses Counts (Pie Chart)
Normalize Results
Remove Outliers Before Calculating Averages

Graph Settings

Force Line Graphs Where Applicable
Convert To Scalar Where Applicable
Prefer Vertical Bar Graphs

Multi-Way Comparison

Condense Multi-Option Tests Into Single Result Graphs

Table

Show Detailed System Result Table

Run Management

Highlight
Result
Hide
Result
Result
Identifier
Performance Per
Dollar
Date
Run
  Test
  Duration
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
June 29 2012
 
CentOS 6.2
June 29 2012
 
Fedora 17
June 29 2012
 
Slackware 14 Beta
July 29 2012
 
Arch Linux
July 30 2012
 
Invert Hiding All Results Option
 

Only show results where is faster than
Only show results matching title/arguments (delimit multiple options with a comma):
Do not show results matching title/arguments (delimit multiple options with a comma):

Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros, "BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 - Computational Test: Dhrystone 2", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",26241583.4,26211383.4,26172159.7 "CentOS 6.2",28042151,28067016.2,28072243.1 "Fedora 17",25809937.7,25776622.4,25832294.5 "Slackware 14 Beta",22737012.7,22942569.3,22887970.4 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",30.71,30.642,30.645 "CentOS 6.2",32.487,32.468,32.486 "Fedora 17",23.606,23.62,23.164 "Slackware 14 Beta",27.93,28.001,27.838 "Arch Linux",23.008,23.311,23.278 "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",5489.765397048,5457.7602873234,5473.265948386 "CentOS 6.2",5966.6612560128,5980.3207579866,5931.4327057869 "Fedora 17",5741.5065979179,5721.9940830685,5750.2573612548 "Slackware 14 Beta",4837.4865608306,4865.8671134393,4847.545169566 "Arch Linux",5720.1645775719,5747.2782747139,5757.1896422853 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",5.7924370765686,5.7693259716034,5.7657070159912,5.763897895813,5.7648589611053 "CentOS 6.2",6.1793119907379,6.1589648723602,6.1549191474915,6.1571888923645,6.1535201072693 "Slackware 14 Beta",6.8893940448761,6.8098738193512,6.8410820960999,6.806410074234,6.8399679660797 "Arch Linux",5.8252198696136,5.7523291110992,5.801069021225,5.7507729530334,5.8057718276978 "Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher", Lower Results Are Better "CentOS 6.2",2290,2310,2290 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Sharpen", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",106,106,106 "CentOS 6.2",102,102,102 "Fedora 17",104,104,104 "Slackware 14 Beta",90,90,90 "Arch Linux",106,106,106 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",179,179,179 "CentOS 6.2",169,169,169 "Fedora 17",178,178,177 "Slackware 14 Beta",156,156,156 "Arch Linux",180,181,181 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",102,102,102 "CentOS 6.2",101,101,101 "Fedora 17",102,101,102 "Slackware 14 Beta",89,89,89 "Arch Linux",104,103,104 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1616.62505,1617.772431,1617.339108 "CentOS 6.2",1680.887656,1676.703652,1680.407959 "Fedora 17",1603.838476,1594.904612,1604.281165 "Slackware 14 Beta",1366.936244,1353.617694,1375.196872 "Arch Linux",1577.081536,1578.589444,1595.977034 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",372.63,373.94,372.9 "CentOS 6.2",350.48,349.97,352.5 "Fedora 17",394.22,391.42,397.67 "Slackware 14 Beta",337.17,330.91,336.7 "Arch Linux",401.24,401.91,401.06 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",2688.12,2710.2,2716.87 "CentOS 6.2",2886.63,2882.96,2873.72 "Fedora 17",2779.47,2775.85,2776.23 "Slackware 14 Beta",2808.9,2799.6,2806.87 "Arch Linux",2876.36,2871.8,2882.74 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",3895.1,3816.77,3781.02 "CentOS 6.2",3835.15,3848.38,3835.55 "Fedora 17",3530.05,3532.54,3520.13 "Slackware 14 Beta",3473.02,3563.61,3496.85 "Arch Linux",3640.26,3626.85,3647.17 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",49.05,48.76,49.54 "CentOS 6.2",53.43,53.29,53.45 "Fedora 17",52.55,52.32,52.07 "Slackware 14 Beta",49.15,49.18,49.02 "Arch Linux",51.17,50.89,51.04 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",91.2,92,92.1,92.1 "CentOS 6.2",90.9,92,90.8,90.9 "Fedora 17",92,91.8,91,91.1 "Slackware 14 Beta",77.3,76.6,77.4,76.9 "Arch Linux",92,92.2,91.3,92.3 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1273.88,1256.09,1267.23,1259.77 "CentOS 6.2",1215,1231.43,1213.06,1214.75 "Fedora 17",1263.44,1248.28,1250.8,1249.05 "Slackware 14 Beta",1075.24,1083.85,1073.16,1079.04 "Arch Linux",1274.07,1311.85,1286.29,1290.97 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",538.22,539.57,539.57,539.57 "CentOS 6.2",325.38,326.37,325.38,325.38 "Fedora 17",412.98,411.4,411.4,412.98 "Slackware 14 Beta",350.9,353.2,323.42,354.37 "Arch Linux",411.4,411.4,411.4,412.98 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",322.88,274.24,277.8,274.24 "CentOS 6.2",326.58,326.58,326.58,325.34 "Fedora 17",326.58,310.01,313.42,312.28 "Slackware 14 Beta",294.03,292.03,294.03,292.03 "Arch Linux",327.83,326.58,320.46,320.46 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1969.23,1932.08,1969.23,1950.48 "CentOS 6.2",1998.05,2079.19,1988.35,1998.05 "Fedora 17",1978.74,1932.08,1941.23,1932.08 "Slackware 14 Beta",1706.67,1742.98,1728.27,1721.01 "Arch Linux",2027.72,2172.94,2073.92,2084.48 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",2359.88,2359.88,2370.37,2359.88 "CentOS 6.2",2250.35,2250.35,2250.35,2250.35 "Fedora 17",2424.24,2413.27,2413.27,2413.27 "Slackware 14 Beta",2035.62,2035.62,2027.88,2035.62 "Arch Linux",2424.24,2469.14,2446.48,2457.76 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1179.18,1174.66,1179.18,1174.66 "CentOS 6.2",1174.66,1174.66,1174.66,1174.66 "Fedora 17",1174.66,1174.66,1174.66,1174.66 "Slackware 14 Beta",988.99,995.41,992.19,992.19 "Arch Linux",1179.18,1179.18,1179.18,1179.18 "Sudokut 0.4 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",20.038218975067,19.958165168762,20.048880815506 "CentOS 6.2",30.175210952759,30.16856098175,30.159373044968 "Fedora 17",20.544494867325,20.6707072258,20.627870082855 "Slackware 14 Beta",23.844089984894,23.775592803955,23.835159063339 "Arch Linux",21.496031045914,21.275279045105,21.599039077759 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",15.581622123718,15.619451999664,15.64523601532 "CentOS 6.2",15.714276075363,15.747505903244,15.814090013504 "Fedora 17",16.009052991867,16.011352062225,16.207686901093 "Slackware 14 Beta",16.111918926239,15.915017843246,16.014245986938 "Arch Linux",15.807414770126,15.901592969894,15.932215929031