Fedora 18 Linux Performance

Fedora 18 benchmarks compared to Fedora 17 on two different Intel Linux systems. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17
January 21 2013
 
Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18
January 20 2013
 
Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17
January 21 2013
 
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January 19 2013
 
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Fedora 18 Linux Performance, "Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",11277.38,10859.13,10829.42 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",10014.29,9331.28,9341.14,9597.46 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",16089.61,15820.94,15552.76 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",13286.15,13130.71,13069.69 "FFmpeg 1.1 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",17.435237884521,16.894156217575,17.241888046265 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",17.626806020737,17.053973913193,17.06934595108 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",16.085902929306,15.398300886154,15.854292869568 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",16.13738489151,15.471717834473,15.568353891373 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",13.880557060242,13.799968957901,13.847421169281,13.807459831238,13.883472919464 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",13.83798623085,13.776388168335,13.789266109467,13.781317949295,13.791656970978 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",13.173313856125,13.136526107788,13.157136917114,13.125251054764,13.121916055679 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",13.109009981155,13.055563926697,13.067085027695,13.085928916931,13.052505016327 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",5.8637199401855,6.5620391368866,5.8184289932251,6.2584190368652,5.7306110858917,5.8817141056061 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",7.143326997757,5.9288668632507,5.933394908905,5.7193129062653,5.6347670555115,6.9507870674133 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",8.613832950592,8.1194849014282,8.5522608757019 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",9.2686309814453,8.4894139766693,8.536877155304,8.2814259529114,8.4861500263214,8.7930479049683 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",58.350368976593,56.3354139328,56.044389009476 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",58.559864044189,55.541718959808,55.53670501709 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",77.846148014069,76.413922071457,76.111622095108 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",77.490840196609,75.710433006287,75.934167146683 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",142,142,142 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",143,143,143 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",127,127,127 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",129,129,129 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: HWB Color Space", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",197,197,197 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",197,197,197 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",203,204,204 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",205,205,205 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",170,171,170 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",172,172,172 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",168,168,168 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",168,169,168 "x264 2012-10-03 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",194.1,219.65,219.1,219.16,218.67,218.96 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",172.81,219.55,219.61,218.76,219.58,218.76 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",153.91,160.27,158.85 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",155.25,158.69,159.13 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",180.969,180.649,181.403 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",187.021,188.062,187.652 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",135.936,138.24,139.758 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",138.007,138.274,138.827 "BLAKE2 20121223 - Phoronix Test Suite v4.4.0m0", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",5.01,4.99,5.01 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",5.02,5.03,5.02 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",5.32,5.33,5.34 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",5.34,5.34,5.34 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",6.6966331005096,6.1774950027466,6.2282719612122,6.220899105072,6.9653661251068,5.7733888626099 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",6.2119469642639,6.2266280651093,6.9425489902496,7.0880291461945,6.4614360332489,7.3138689994812 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",5.602283000946,5.9986989498138,5.8536739349365 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",5.9232318401337,5.8326160907745,5.9151079654694 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",15.899991035461,15.99051618576,16.110378026962 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",15.79980802536,15.838165998459,15.93827009201 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",10.449352025986,10.365972042084,10.318819999695 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",10.570521116257,10.472873926163,10.44354891777 "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",5754.1473793221,5750.5857285511,5755.4125743127 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",5743.7529155262,5750.7560883005,5745.0609627767 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",5852.1513988033,5818.2767436903,5826.2140040313 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",5844.5853890987,5819.3649217217,5814.8400713861 "Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics", Lower Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",24.266645908356,24.148782968521,24.242444992065 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",24.303973913193,24.109272956848,24.164829015732 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",23.375362157822,22.767841100693,22.769134044647 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",22.82319688797,22.718886137009,22.698189020157 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",53.33,52.93,53.71 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",50.05,50,49.72 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",49.85,49.94,49.61 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",45.39,44.32,44.18 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",2811.37,2804.46,2809.25 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",2806.32,2806.58,2806.43 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",6059.41,6056.71,6065.74 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",6021.48,6045,6040.01 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",12449.21,12479.12,12541.59 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",12526.98,12496.4,12509.75 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",14043.42,14036.46,14051.42 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",14135.83,14059.28,14029.92 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",148.19,148.11,148.12 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",147.72,147.81,147.76 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",154.95,154.96,155.02 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",154.56,154.65,154.57 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",395.4,395.5,395.71 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",395.51,395.47,395.47 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",276.21,276.18,276.59 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",280.07,281.7,281.31 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",1529.94,1528.2,1528.11 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",1528.95,1523.67,1522.01 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",2738.98,2729.31,2746.33 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",2743.85,2719.04,2689.7 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",12702.92,12679.6,12682.11 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",12661.68,12668.81,12660.54 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",14070.77,14133.71,14069.69 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",14095.38,14082.99,14061.89 "CLOMP 3.3 - Static OMP Speedup", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",5.99,6.07,6.02,5.92,6.12 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",5.92,6.11,5.96,5.98,5.99 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",5.15,5.06,5.19,5.16,5.14 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",5.15,5.03,5.15,5.17,5.17 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",36.6682315,36.6603342,36.5931193 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",40.0059781,40.0662484,40.057522 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",51.7027471,50.22331,51.798011 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",57.994121,63.4482766,57.9171597,58.66474,57.8917333,58.072911 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",99.9876123,97.5702673,97.8407869 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",100.3639409,100.2246912,100.2596792 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",121.0900236,122.4128736,120.8803496 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",128.7265857,129.0815515,128.872466 "World of Padman 1.2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",59.7,59.7,59.7 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",59.9,60,60 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",149.2,147.8,149.6 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",169.4,171,171.9 "OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",21.8,21.7,21.7 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",14.5,14.3,14.8 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",30.4,30.2,30.5 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",32.7,32.6,32.7 "OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",59.2,59.3,59.2 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",59.3,59.3,59.3 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",130.2,150,150.2,150,149.8,150.1 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",183.1,175.7,176.5 "Nexuiz 2.5.2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On", Higher Results Are Better "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 17",15.1464215,15.218286,15.3137455 "Core i7 3960X: Fedora 18",24.7670369,36.9189747,37.04464,37.0857898,37.0473023,36.8611953 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 17",37.0553621,37.8003279,42.5126969,37.8638264,41.4340637,37.8492625 "Core i7 3770K: Fedora 18",13.3901103,17.2579213,16.476337,16.4773678,16.4552119,16.4652293