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
Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros,
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",1263.44,1248.28,1250.8,1249.05
"CentOS 6.2",1215,1231.43,1213.06,1214.75
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1273.88,1256.09,1267.23,1259.77
"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
"Fedora 17",412.98,411.4,411.4,412.98
"CentOS 6.2",325.38,326.37,325.38,325.38
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",538.22,539.57,539.57,539.57
"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
"Fedora 17",326.58,310.01,313.42,312.28
"CentOS 6.2",326.58,326.58,326.58,325.34
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",322.88,274.24,277.8,274.24
"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
"Fedora 17",1978.74,1932.08,1941.23,1932.08
"CentOS 6.2",1998.05,2079.19,1988.35,1998.05
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1969.23,1932.08,1969.23,1950.48
"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
"Fedora 17",2424.24,2413.27,2413.27,2413.27
"CentOS 6.2",2250.35,2250.35,2250.35,2250.35
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",2359.88,2359.88,2370.37,2359.88
"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
"Fedora 17",1174.66,1174.66,1174.66,1174.66
"CentOS 6.2",1174.66,1174.66,1174.66,1174.66
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1179.18,1174.66,1179.18,1174.66
"Slackware 14 Beta",988.99,995.41,992.19,992.19
"Arch Linux",1179.18,1179.18,1179.18,1179.18
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"CentOS 6.2",6.1793119907379,6.1589648723602,6.1549191474915,6.1571888923645,6.1535201072693
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",5.7924370765686,5.7693259716034,5.7657070159912,5.763897895813,5.7648589611053
"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
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",16.009052991867,16.011352062225,16.207686901093
"CentOS 6.2",15.714276075363,15.747505903244,15.814090013504
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",15.581622123718,15.619451999664,15.64523601532
"Slackware 14 Beta",16.111918926239,15.915017843246,16.014245986938
"Arch Linux",15.807414770126,15.901592969894,15.932215929031
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",1603.838476,1594.904612,1604.281165
"CentOS 6.2",1680.887656,1676.703652,1680.407959
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1616.62505,1617.772431,1617.339108
"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
"Fedora 17",394.22,391.42,397.67
"CentOS 6.2",350.48,349.97,352.5
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",372.63,373.94,372.9
"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
"Fedora 17",2779.47,2775.85,2776.23
"CentOS 6.2",2886.63,2882.96,2873.72
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",2688.12,2710.2,2716.87
"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
"Fedora 17",3530.05,3532.54,3520.13
"CentOS 6.2",3835.15,3848.38,3835.55
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",3895.1,3816.77,3781.02
"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
"Fedora 17",52.55,52.32,52.07
"CentOS 6.2",53.43,53.29,53.45
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",49.05,48.76,49.54
"Slackware 14 Beta",49.15,49.18,49.02
"Arch Linux",51.17,50.89,51.04
"FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",5741.5065979179,5721.9940830685,5750.2573612548
"CentOS 6.2",5966.6612560128,5980.3207579866,5931.4327057869
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",5489.765397048,5457.7602873234,5473.265948386
"Slackware 14 Beta",4837.4865608306,4865.8671134393,4847.545169566
"Arch Linux",5720.1645775719,5747.2782747139,5757.1896422853
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Sharpen",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",104,104,104
"CentOS 6.2",102,102,102
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",106,106,106
"Slackware 14 Beta",90,90,90
"Arch Linux",106,106,106
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Resizing",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",178,178,177
"CentOS 6.2",169,169,169
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",179,179,179
"Slackware 14 Beta",156,156,156
"Arch Linux",180,181,181
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",102,101,102
"CentOS 6.2",101,101,101
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",102,102,102
"Slackware 14 Beta",89,89,89
"Arch Linux",104,103,104
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",23.606,23.62,23.164
"CentOS 6.2",32.487,32.468,32.486
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",30.71,30.642,30.645
"Slackware 14 Beta",27.93,28.001,27.838
"Arch Linux",23.008,23.311,23.278
"OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",92,91.8,91,91.1
"CentOS 6.2",90.9,92,90.8,90.9
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",91.2,92,92.1,92.1
"Slackware 14 Beta",77.3,76.6,77.4,76.9
"Arch Linux",92,92.2,91.3,92.3
"BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 - Computational Test: Dhrystone 2",
Higher Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",25809937.7,25776622.4,25832294.5
"CentOS 6.2",28042151,28067016.2,28072243.1
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",26241583.4,26211383.4,26172159.7
"Slackware 14 Beta",22737012.7,22942569.3,22887970.4
"Sudokut 0.4 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Fedora 17",20.544494867325,20.6707072258,20.627870082855
"CentOS 6.2",30.175210952759,30.16856098175,30.159373044968
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",20.038218975067,19.958165168762,20.048880815506
"Slackware 14 Beta",23.844089984894,23.775592803955,23.835159063339
"Arch Linux",21.496031045914,21.275279045105,21.599039077759