linux kernel vs. AMD E-350 testing with a Acer JE40_BZ and AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB on SUSE LINUX 12.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 3.4.11-openSUSE: Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless OS: SUSE LINUX 12.2, Kernel: 3.4.11-2.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.1 (SVN 157047) + LLVM 3.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 3.6.3-TuoLei: Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless OS: SUSE LINUX 12.2, Kernel: 3.6.3 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.1 (SVN 157047) + LLVM 3.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: GNOME Terminal Vim Seconds < Lower Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 56.88 |====================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 56.87 |====================================================== cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: Poppler Seconds < Lower Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 25.03 |===================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 25.36 |====================================================== cairo-perf-trace 1.10.2 Cairo Trace: Firefox Canvas Seconds < Lower Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 831.37 |===================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 824.67 |===================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 152.70 |================================================= 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 163.57 |===================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 37.31 |====================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 34.06 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 35.27 |====================================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 790.52 |===================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 791.43 |===================================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 3405.99 |==================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 3396.46 |==================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 3642.52 |====================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 4952.20 |==================================================== GtkPerf 0.40 GTK Widget: GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs Seconds < Lower Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 12.23 |====================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 12.09 |===================================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 66.18 |====================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 66.34 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 1153.02 |==================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 1152.51 |==================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 546.70 |===================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 484.08 |=============================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 250.41 |===================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 233.91 |================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 97.08 |====================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 94.89 |===================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 246.44 |==================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 252.88 |===================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 3.4.11-openSUSE . 1170.52 |==================================================== 3.6.3-TuoLei .... 1160.74 |====================================================