AHCI mode VS IDE mode AMD E-350 testing with a Acer JE40_BZ and AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB on SUSE LINUX 12.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AHCI mode: Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.5.0-TuoLei-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 IDE mode: Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.5.0-TuoLei-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 970 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P, Chipset: AMD ATI RD780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4 x 2048 MB 800MHz, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD502HJ + 250GB SAMSUNG HD250HJ + 499GB My Passport 070A, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.1.10-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 114606 |=================== IDE mode ..................... 106828 |================= SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 245973 |======================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 37.29 |========================================= IDE mode ..................... 30.26 |================================= SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 32.55 |==================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 17.64 |======================= IDE mode ..................... 17.62 |======================= SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 30.90 |========================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 1045.48 |============ IDE mode ..................... 1045.44 |============ SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 3327.05 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 1632.25 |==================== IDE mode ..................... 1654.96 |===================== SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 3127.36 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 187.76 |======================================== IDE mode ..................... 182.43 |======================================= SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 111.93 |======================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 204.60 |======================================== IDE mode ..................... 196.35 |====================================== SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 116.99 |======================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 1817.09 |===================== IDE mode ..................... 1822.63 |===================== SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 3421.17 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 207.57 |======================================== IDE mode ..................... 195.00 |====================================== SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 118.31 |======================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 157.26 |= IDE mode ..................... 120.51 |= SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 7927.80 |======================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 94.82 |======================= IDE mode ..................... 162.94 |======================================== SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 124.49 |=============================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 68.59 | IDE mode ..................... 36.85 | SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 6013.86 |======================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode .................... 25.37 |========================================= IDE mode ..................... 20.98 |================================== SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 2.25 |==== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode . 162.16 |=========================================================== IDE mode .. 161.33 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode . 37.83 |============================================================ IDE mode .. 36.76 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better AHCI mode . 97.92 |====================================================== IDE mode .. 106.57 |=========================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better AHCI mode . 373 |============================================================== IDE mode .. 362 |============================================================ Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Example Network Job Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better AHCI mode .................... 30.67 |======================================== IDE mode ..................... 31.18 |========================================= SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 9.14 |============ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better AHCI mode .................... 42.32 |========================================= IDE mode ..................... 40.13 |======================================= SB750 - AHCI vs IDE - Test 1 . 8.47 |========