CompuLab - Intel Ivy Bridge - Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Ubuntu 12.10 CompuLab Intense-PC Core i7 3617UE benchmarking of Ubuntu Linux for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Benchmarking of stock Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and then with all available stable updates as of 12 August 2012 and then with Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal development snapshot as of 13 August. ,,"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated","Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13" Processor,,Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,CompuLab Intense-PC,CompuLab Intense-PC,CompuLab Intense-PC Chipset,,Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM,Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM,Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM Memory,,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB Disk,,500GB Hitachi HCC54755,500GB Hitachi HCC54755,500GB Hitachi HCC54755 Graphics,,Intel Ivy Bridge,Intel Ivy Bridge,Intel Ivybridge Mobile (GT2) Audio,,Realtek ALC888,Realtek ALC888,Realtek ALC888 Monitor,,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431 Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.10 Kernel,,3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64),3.5.0-9-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.14.0,Unity 6.2.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2) Display Driver,,intel 2.17.0,intel 2.17.0,intel 2.19.0 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2,3.0 Mesa 8.0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.7 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated","Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13" "Lightsmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,46.29,47.77,52.81 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,30.23,31.32,34.59 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,96.60,103.23,110.67 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,22.80,23.57,24.73 "Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,27.50,28.03,30.73 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,55.93,63.54,69.13 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,27.38,29.82,33.64 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,58.02,58.19,63.98 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1992.28,1990.48,2531.70 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,4215.88,5154.62,5469.94 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2245.71,3355.52,3773.34 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,14.83,17.38,21.23 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator - Test: Rhodopsin Protein (Loop Time)",LIB,52.98,53.18,52.36 "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,4027.59,4037.56,4150.80 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,13.22,13.93,14.22 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,41.77,45.32,50.31 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,12.52,13.27,14.57 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,55.17,52.57,49.33 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1151.94,1138.69,1170.87 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8089,8125,8062 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,137.25,127.73,94.07 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,21.42,21.81,22.97 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,284,267,254 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,13.66,13.58,13.69 "Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,155.63,155.74,151.83 "Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,91.18,91.71,95.81 "Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,140.10,139.97,144.24 "Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,205.03,205.01,204.08 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,71.93,71.70,71.68 "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,125.84,125.55,120.65