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.

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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" "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,104,102,106,90,106 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,178,169,179,156,181 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,102,101,102,89,104 "BYTE Unix Benchmark - Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 (LPS)",HIB,25806284.87,28060470.10,26208375.50,22855850.80, "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,5737.92,5959.47,5473.60,4850.30,5741.54 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1252.89,1218.56,1264.24,1077.82,1290.80 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,412.19,325.63,539.23,345.47,411.80 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,315.57,326.27,287.29,293.03,323.83 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1946.03,2015.91,1955.26,1724.73,2089.77 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,2416.01,2250.35,2362.50,2033.69,2449.41 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1174.66,1174.66,1176.92,992.20,1179.18 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1601.01,1679.33,1617.25,1365.25,1583.88 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,91.48,91.15,91.85,77.05,91.95 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,394.44,350.98,373.16,334.93,401.40 "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: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3527.57,3839.69,3830.96,3511.16,3638.09 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,52.31,53.39,49.12,49.12,51.03 "Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,,2297,,, "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,16.08,15.76,15.62,16.01,15.88 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,23.46,32.48,30.67,27.92,23.20 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,,6.16,5.77,6.84,5.79 "Sudokut - Total Time (sec)",LIB,20.61,30.17,20.02,23.82,21.46