AMD FX-8350 Piledriver KVM Linux Virtualization AMD FX-8350 Vishera used for some KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) Linux benchmarks on Ubuntu 12.10 for a future article on Phoronix.com. Bare Metal Host: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 KVM: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.2.0 @ 4.01GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 12GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 21, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: cirrus 1.5.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: QEMU 1.2.0 Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 233.89 |===================================================== KVM ............. 160.34 |==================================== CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 2.96 |======================================================= KVM ............. 2.69 |================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 37.39 |====================================================== KVM ............. 36.66 |===================================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 58.79 |===================================================== KVM ............. 59.71 |====================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 3073.60 |==================================================== KVM ............. 3018.06 |=================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 7152 |======================================================= KVM ............. 4915 |====================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 117.14 |===================================================== KVM ............. 39.87 |================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 23.84 |====================================================== KVM ............. 19.10 |=========================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 156.66 |===================================================== KVM ............. 132.40 |============================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 100 |================================================== KVM ............. 112 |======================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 67 |========================================================= KVM ............. 66 |======================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 132 |======================================================== KVM ............. 127 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 162 |======================================================== KVM ............. 156 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 106 |======================================================== KVM ............. 103 |====================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 82.58 |================================================== KVM ............. 88.59 |====================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 30.55 |================================================= KVM ............. 33.73 |====================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 8.05 |====================================================== KVM ............. 8.23 |======================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 19.74 |====================================================== KVM ............. 19.91 |====================================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 13.48 |================================================ KVM ............. 15.04 |====================================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 20.24 |=============================================== KVM ............. 23.41 |====================================================== Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 517.29 |==================================================== KVM ............. 529.00 |===================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 842 |======================================================= KVM ............. 854 |======================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 90.03 |====================================================== KVM ............. 89.70 |====================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 2960.87 |==================================================== KVM ............. 1311.11 |======================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 15935.89 |=================================================== KVM ............. 15240.32 |=================================================