Debian kFreeBSD vs. Linux Intel Core i7-3960X testing with a INTEL DX79SI and AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite for a future article on Phoronix. Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ-VERTEX/1.30, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB (650/900MHz), Audio: Intel (Unknown) HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.0.5 OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.6, Kernel: 8.1-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian Linux 6.0.6: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB 1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 6.0.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian Linux Wheezy: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.4.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 4.17 |================================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 2.82 |================================= Debian Linux Wheezy ... 2.83 |================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 23.76 |====== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 180.02 |=============================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 51.17 |============= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 9.57 |=== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 169.77 |=============================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 70.29 |=================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 33.39 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 9.53 |============== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 8.56 |============ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 99 |===== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 1053 |================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 6695.54 |============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 6190.45 |=========================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 6486.81 |============================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 6664.60 |============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 5805.42 |======================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 6060.19 |========================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 7291.36 |============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 6429.87 |========================================= Debian Linux Wheezy ... 6923.27 |============================================ Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 6850.14 |============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 6120.19 |========================================= Debian Linux Wheezy ... 6546.25 |============================================ Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 32.89 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 27.69 |======================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 24.10 |=================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 45.43 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 39.23 |========================================= FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 4987.15 |======================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 5886.54 |============================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 5755.34 |============================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 22.82 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 6.09 |============= Debian Linux Wheezy ... 5.91 |============ Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 11922.83 |========================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 13078.73 |============================================= Debian Linux Wheezy ... 12786.77 |============================================ BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 22621315.77 |=================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 26938633.80 |========================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 25874598.70 |======================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 277.29 |======================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 330.38 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 280.95 |======================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 342.26 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 1844.75 |========================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 2002.95 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 1967.39 |========================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 2231.54 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 994.20 |======================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 1175.79 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 23297667 |================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 30342333 |=========================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 31653000 |============================================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 1282.81 |==================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 1538.44 |=========================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 1630.60 |============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 20956 |======================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 25930 |================================================ Debian Linux Wheezy ... 25311 |=============================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 37.65 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 27.64 |=================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 23.15 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 17.86 |===================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 21.86 |============================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 48.04 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 32.44 |================================ Debian Linux Wheezy ... 23.16 |======================= Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 66.63 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 55.93 |======================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 14.01 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 11.66 |======================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 11.41 |======================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 122.36 |============================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 129.46 |=============================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 128.83 |=============================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 74.15 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 57.89 |===================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 57.19 |===================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 13.44 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 5.77 |===================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 5.64 |==================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 10.20 |================================================ GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 10.80 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 8.69 |======================================= Debian Linux Wheezy ... 8.49 |====================================== N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 264.77 |=============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 223.20 |======================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 211.47 |====================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 2991 |================================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 2454 |======================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 1893 |=============================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 24.04 |======================================= Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 27.15 |============================================ Debian Linux Wheezy ... 29.31 |================================================ FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 14.55 |==================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 19.26 |================================================ Debian Linux Wheezy ... 18.75 |=============================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 141.79 |=============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 127.02 |========================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 129.51 |=========================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 80.56 |================================================ Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 71.85 |=========================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 73.45 |============================================ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 135.97 |=============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 121.80 |========================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 118.78 |========================================= Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.6 . 180.05 |=============================================== Debian Linux 6.0.6 .... 154.58 |======================================== Debian Linux Wheezy ... 154.04 |========================================