Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme and AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 benchmarking of various Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualization options with the Precise Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of bare metal, Xen, KVM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization methods from this Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition and AMD Bulldozer systems that were running in the same configuration for the duration of testing. This Linux virtualization benchmarking is for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 12.04 AMD vs. Intel Virtualization
Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme and AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 benchmarking of various Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualization options with the Precise Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of bare metal, Xen, KVM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization methods from this Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition and AMD Bulldozer systems that were running in the same configuration for the duration of testing. This Linux virtualization benchmarking is for a future article on Phoronix.com.
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal","Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM","Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen","Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox","AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal","AMD FX-8150: KVM","AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox","Intel Core i7 3820X: Xen"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.19GHz (12 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores),QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.62GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Bochs,Xen HVM domU v4.1.2,innotek VirtualBox v1.2,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,Bochs,innotek VirtualBox v1.2,Xen HVM domU v4.1.2
Chipset,,Intel Sandy DMI2,Red Hat Virtio,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,AMD nee ATI RD890,Red Hat Virtio,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC
Memory,,16384MB,12288MB,12288MB,12288MB,16384MB,12288MB,12288MB,11264MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,16GB,26GB,41GB VBOX HDD,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,16GB,41GB VBOX HDD,346GB
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,AMD Radeon HD 6670 1024MB (800/1000MHz)
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Generic 1af4 ID 20,Ensoniq ES1370,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Realtek ALC889,Generic 1af4 ID 20,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,ATI R6xx HDMI
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,,,,DELL P2210H,,,VA2223wm
Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Red Hat Virtio device,,Intel 82540EM Gigabit,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Red Hat Virtio device,Intel 82540EM Gigabit,
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04
Kernel,,3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0,Unity 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0,KDE 4.8.4
Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3
Display Driver,,radeon 6.14.99,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,vesa 2.3.0,radeon 6.14.99,cirrus 1.3.2,vesa 2.3.0,fglrx 8.96.4 Catalyst 12.4
OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,4.2.11631
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1920x1080,1024x768,1024x768,1920x1080
System Layer,,,QEMU 1.0,Xen HVM domU 4.1.2,VirtualBox 4.1.10_Ubuntur76795,,QEMU 1.0,VirtualBox 4.1.10_Ubuntur76795,Xen HVM domU 4.1.2
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal","Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM","Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen","Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox","AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal","AMD FX-8150: KVM","AMD FX-8150: VirtualBox","Intel Core i7 3820X: Xen"
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,23.54,19.67,23.18,7.94,19.86,14.98,15.05,10.84
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,170.44,139.51,156.54,27.03,132.08,113.92,83.81,108.70
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,118,113,98,90,114,110,95,92
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,162,157,146,134,162,155,133,142
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,85,83,77,62,67,69,58,62
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,146,138,130,97,131,123,105,116
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,87,85,81,66,64,82,55,63
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,429.00,312.79,378.65,348.64,589.92,332.38,485.54,
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,220.11,159.19,144.09,140.54,228.54,181.85,144.04,
"Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,300.55,268.33,255.00,113.94,175.65,152.85,113.37,12.31
"Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,174.62,9.57,135.89,35.86,253.23,9.59,40.73,2.36
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1357.24,1322.15,1351.65,1258.82,631.86,649.43,547.28,1479.00
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1062.22,957.19,1050.68,907.17,809.54,748.35,644.20,1071.13
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1941.16,1737.26,1928.90,1644.01,1754.40,1639.77,1418.45,2008.82
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,307.91,180.14,308.62,171.66,79.16,83.07,72.65,256.76
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1653.30,1473.43,1617.43,1384.57,1066.68,883.72,745.59,1555.99
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,25015,21319,23762,5200,17504,14991,13268,14747
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,6562,6270,5657,2179,6386,6162,5366,2698
"NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,17638.33,16675.53,17788.74,3505.38,17706.18,19976.40,8577.56,17191.38
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,74.98,74.85,74.98,71.98,70.35,69.98,61.10,81.43
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,16396.46,14094.95,14979.75,3600.71,11870.22,10886.52,9603.87,8332.77
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3307.14,2941.37,2841.48,675.11,2481.11,2339.77,2124.70,1298.30
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,305.52,297.07,297.51,207.84,177.48,165.26,148.88,186.64
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,9102.76,8589.00,8693.00,4871.72,6392.14,6044.54,5521.19,5708.04
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,154.57,84.97,153.99,80.94,107.53,73.72,63.74,166.45
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,15393.08,12133.88,11580.19,2537.95,11597.69,10624.59,9731.97,2468.35
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,10158.85,8422.94,7698.61,1430.53,4616.18,4146.81,3554.96,3083.48
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,9340.36,7007.17,6944.81,1100.63,5441.58,4927.24,4541.71,3262.59
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,73.12,56.96,46.09,2.79,39.08,35.86,32.48,6.96
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,12.14,10.67,9.74,29.94,16.72,14.47,16.72,13.88
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,4.89,7.45,7.64,60.65,6.97,11.47,22.06,8.50
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,42.07,41.31,50.36,58.26,56.03,53.87,61.22,79.14
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,65.71,76.52,116.75,116.36,91.20,97.83,111.89,158.02
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,37.37,39.42,39.49,56.52,46.03,46.59,52.27,62.33
"LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,155.28,197.93,144.33,209.48,152.33,182.35,207.54,152.90
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,6.06,6.42,6.38,13.53,8.33,8.60,9.60,9.95
"Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,90.96,93.82,92.55,99.29,105.34,107.99,124.63,88.40
"Open FMM Nero2D - Total Time (sec)",LIB,708.09,715.72,713.81,749.63,1038.73,1050.57,1239.39,503.65
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,21,21,21,29,33,34,38,117