Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 Intel Atom Ubuntu Linux comparison from an Intel Atom 330 NVIDIA ION NetTop. Comparing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS through Ubuntu 13.04 for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS: Processor: Intel Atom 330 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock AMCP7AION-HT, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP79, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST9320325AS, Graphics: NVIDIA ION VGA 256MB (450MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: NVIDIA MCP79 + Atheros AR9285 Wireless 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: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Ubuntu 12.10: Processor: Intel Atom 330 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock AMCP7AION-HT, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP79, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST9320325AS, Graphics: NVIDIA ION VGA 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: NVIDIA MCP79 + Atheros AR9285 Wireless 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: nouveau 1.0.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16: Processor: Intel Atom 330 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock AMCP7AION-HT, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP79, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST9320325AS, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: NVIDIA MCP79 + Atheros AR9285 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-0-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.1.901 (1.13.2 RC 1), Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.6, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x768 Botan 1.10.3 Test: Tiger Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 63.33 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 60.98 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 61.13 |============================================ Botan 1.10.3 Test: KASUMI Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 15.59 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 15.66 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 15.63 |============================================== Botan 1.10.3 Test: AES-256 Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 20.48 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 21.15 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 21.15 |============================================== Botan 1.10.3 Test: Twofish Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 32.65 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 35.08 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 35.05 |============================================== Botan 1.10.3 Test: CAST-256 Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 19.78 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 18.95 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 18.93 |============================================ Botan 1.10.3 Test: X9.19-MAC Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 15.05 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 13.98 |=========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 563.26 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 420.41 |================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 419.70 |================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 294.53 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 289.14 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 290.84 |============================================ FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 106.59 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 105.11 |============================================ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 858.17 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 833.83 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 821.77 |=========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 114.63 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 124.12 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 122.70 |============================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 19.25 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 19.73 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 19.04 |============================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 340.60 |============================================= Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 325.50 |=========================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 342.03 |============================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 643.22 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 653.54 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 652.50 |============================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 549.46 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 601.36 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 589.79 |============================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 4.37 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 4.37 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 4.12 |============================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 99.40 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 97.67 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 97.80 |============================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 202 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 180 |=========================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 172 |========================================= Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 899.64 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 911.65 |============================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 1046 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 1141 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 1229 |=============================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 116.45 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 115.76 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 119.51 |============================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 69.52 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 65.84 |============================================ Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 69.60 |============================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 322.48 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 345.92 |============================================= Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 348.00 |============================================= VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 2.68 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 2.62 |============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 2.64 |============================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ...... 9.63 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 ............ 9.84 |=============================================== Ubuntu 13.04 2013-01-16 . 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