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.

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CompuLab - Intel Ivy Bridge - Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Ubuntu 12.10, "PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 - TPC-B Transactions Per Second", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",126.103116,124.981446,126.426833 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",125.406966,125.526472,125.730972 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",119.197133,121.228522,121.520356 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",72.2,71.5,72,72 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",72.2,71.1,72.2,71.3 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",71.7,71.1,71.9,72 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Quasigroup", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",204.846936,205.150904,205.104404 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",205.342449,204.837507,204.863066 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",203.69225,204.829337,203.721042 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Solitaire", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",140.038256,140.367026,139.87997 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",139.922356,139.819842,140.174517 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",144.780604,144.178969,143.747847 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Graceful", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",91.61648,91.034205,90.900236 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",91.415898,91.499934,92.214116 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",96.020289,95.981295,95.439723 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Bibd", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",156.304211,155.660198,154.924816 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",155.400035,155.908014,155.915594 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",151.318858,151.676326,152.489512 "FFmpeg 0.10 - AVI To NTSC VCD", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",14.060982942581,13.461097002029,13.448740005493 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",13.723188877106,13.589266777039,13.42734003067 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",14.024435043335,13.519680976868,13.522799015045 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",277,304,274,285,293,271 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",263,260,290,261,262,267 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",254,254,254 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",21.000981092453,21.1564848423,22.113096952438 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",21.189853906631,22.032542943954,22.215828895569 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",23.247718095779,23.159344911575,22.506943941116 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",127.259,127.353,139.866,142.833,127.387,158.803 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",127.906,127.652,127.624 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",93.807,94.706,93.686 "7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",8061,8229,7978 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",8068,8116,8192 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",8080,8052,8055 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1147.694937,1152.32989,1155.786783 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",1131.715021,1139.691214,1144.659422 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",1167.915951,1171.15356,1173.5482 "x264 2011-12-06 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",53.61,55.66,56.24 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",35.9,55.65,56.41,56.4,55.42,55.65 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",36.36,36.65,55.54,55.66,55.88,55.88 "VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 - vpxenc", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",14.69,13.57,9.64,14.62,12.87,9.74 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",14.86,11.65,9.81,15.18,14.77,13.37 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",14.57,14.7,14.44 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",46.7928,38.1298,44.7896,38.2088,44.4105,38.2719 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",52.2041,38.3327,47.8813,42.8178,44.2196,46.4801 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",50.3008,50.3332,50.2811 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",13.522831916809,13.09378695488,13.05446100235 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",14.363760948181,14.234793901443,13.095809936523,14.453127861023,13.153334140778,14.291693925858 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",14.155788898468,15.135299921036,15.187233924866,13.792887926102,14.176656961441,12.876497983932 "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",4027.0724885752,4042.4339687672,4013.2603852167 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",4046.9496398259,4050.4927220963,4015.249590938 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",4151.3410150797,4135.7394331045,4165.3211832204 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 - Test: Rhodopsin Protein", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",52.8555,53.1133,52.9648 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",53.0508,53.2539,53.2344 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",52.543,52.5117,52.0352 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",14.92,14.81,14.76 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",20.97,20.93,18.09,14.7,14.71,14.85 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",21.27,21.13,21.28 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",2248.84,2244.57,2243.73 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",3305.22,3373.97,3387.38 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",3772.42,3768.8,3778.81 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",5194.36,5243.39,4178.45,3562.18,3541.36,3575.54 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",5281.97,5108.96,5072.93 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",5460.54,5531.39,5417.88 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: FT.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1989.89,1993.02,1993.93 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",1994.9,1983.04,1993.51 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",3222.24,2185.64,2190.61,2185.53,2185.79,3220.37 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",58.34,58.26,57.45 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",58.34,58.06,58.16 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",64.25,63.87,63.83 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",27.4566346,27.4692062,27.2277965 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",31.0354341,28.754073,31.1237599,28.6255274,31.0809259,28.3196673 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",34.550781,34.4193497,31.6436546,34.6236077,32.215339,34.3798204 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",58.6917268,53.1444399,58.5696077,55.3652738,55.9344799,53.8645051 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",73.3418732,62.9299026,62.3365811,59.3239932,62.2094398,61.076053 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",83.0058943,71.2423091,71.0514266,60.8890042,69.3085119,59.2829298 "Warsow 1.0 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",27.3,27.5,27.7 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",27.8,27.9,28.4 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",30.2,31.4,30.6 "OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",23.2,22.7,22.5 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",24,23.7,23 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",24.9,24.9,24.4 "OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",98.2,95.9,95.7 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",103.8,103.4,102.5 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",110.9,110.7,110.4 "Nexuiz 2.5.2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",30.2542491,30.139358,30.3098512 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",31.3143376,31.3260438,31.3294572 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",34.5378971,34.5509326,34.674458 "Lightsmark 2008 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",46.37,46.28,46.21 "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Updated",47.51,47.77,48.04 "Ubuntu 12.10 2012-08-13",52.82,52.78,52.84