Intel Atom Ubuntu 10.10 - 12.04 - 12.10 Intel Atom D525 testing with a FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535 and Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx IGP on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Atom D525 performance across two years of support with Ubuntu 10.10, 12.04.1 LTS, and 12.10 development. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 10.10: Processor: Intel Atom D525 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535, Chipset: Intel N10 Family DMI Bridge, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000BEVT-2, Graphics: Intel N10 Family IGP 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: intel 2.12.0, OpenGL: 1.4 Mesa 7.9-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS: Processor: Intel Atom D525 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535, Chipset: Intel N10 Family DMI Bridge, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000BEVT-2, Graphics: Intel N10 Family IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.14.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 1.4 Mesa 8.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Ubuntu 12.10 20120912: Processor: Intel Atom D525 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535, Chipset: Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000BEVT-2, Graphics: Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.6, OpenGL: 1.4 Mesa 8.1-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 2.99 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 2.97 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 2.99 |================================================= x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 11.35 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 11.22 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 11.35 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 12 |=================================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 12 |=================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 12 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 25 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 27 |=================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 27 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 9 |==================================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 9 |==================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 9 |==================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 1007.03 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 962.87 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 942.93 |=========================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 2051 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 2085 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 2089 |================================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 115428 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 117900 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 118065 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 2329.38 |=================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 3080.15 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 3073.42 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 7.65 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 7.60 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 7.60 |================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 19.38 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 21.80 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 22.36 |================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 741.45 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 763.47 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 780.69 |=============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 687.08 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 636.83 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 710.18 |=============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 347.94 |================================ Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 502.26 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 506.33 |=============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 4.77 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 4.81 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 4.81 |================================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 209 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 227 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 279 |================================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 462.23 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 458.75 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 459.73 |=============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 1009.51 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 994.15 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 1039.68 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 568.19 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 500.05 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 371.20 |=============================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 94.13 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 94.59 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 90.95 |============================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 10.10 .......... 961 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS .... 929 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120912 . 1007 |=================================================