AMD Ubuntu Linux LTS Comparison

Comparing the Linux performance of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, and an Ubuntu 13.04 development snapshot. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article looking at the Ubuntu Linux performance. These Linux performance benchmarks are from an AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core system.

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Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
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February 11 2013
 
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February 11 2013
 
Ubuntu 13.04
February 09 2013
 
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AMD Ubuntu Linux LTS Comparison Comparing the Linux performance of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, and an Ubuntu 13.04 development snapshot. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article looking at the Ubuntu Linux performance. These Linux performance benchmarks are from an AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core system. ,,"Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS","Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS","Ubuntu 13.04" Processor,,AMD Phenom 9500 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores),AMD Phenom 9500 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores),AMD Phenom 9500 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores),AMD Phenom 9500 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,ECS A790GXM-A v1.0,ECS A790GXM-A v1.0,ECS A790GXM-A v1.0,ECS A790GXM-A v1.0 Chipset,,AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800,AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800,AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0,AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB Disk,,250GB Seagate ST3250310AS,250GB Seagate ST3250310AS,250GB Seagate ST3250310AS,250GB Seagate ST3250310AS Graphics,,ATI 944c,AMD Radeon HD 4800 256MB,AMD Radeon HD 4800 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4800 512MB Audio,,ATI SBx00 Azalia,Realtek ALC888,Realtek ALC888,Realtek ALC888 Monitor,,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS,,Ubuntu 8.04,Ubuntu 10.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 13.04 Kernel,,2.6.24-26-generic (x86_64),2.6.32-38-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64),3.8.0-5-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME 2.22.3,GNOME 2.30.2,Unity 5.14.0,Unity 6.6.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.4.0.90,X Server 1.7.6,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.13.2 Display Driver,,vesa 1.3.0,radeon 6.13.0,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 7.1.0 OpenGL,,1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2),1.5 Mesa 7.7.1,2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4,3.0 Mesa 9.0.2 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.2.4,GCC 4.4.3,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.7 File-System,,ext3,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1280x1024,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS","Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS","Ubuntu 13.04" "BLAKE2 - Phoronix Test Suite v4.4.0m2 (Cycles/Byte)",LIB,15.57,15.62,15.61,15.78 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,43.10,76.87,108.37 "Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,83.37,9.82,9.36,10.42 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,42.67,18.27,17.87,17.70 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync (Files/s)",HIB,74.93,228.93,80.50,132.20 "FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,32.50,39.18,35.80,35.47 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,40.13,16.30,15.60,16.57 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,72.06,95.84,95.03,95.46 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance (MB/s)",HIB,64.08,96.83,95.15,94.17 "IOzone - Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,75.06,90.92,89.35,89.23 "IOzone - Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance (MB/s)",HIB,62.42,88.94,86.83,86.26 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,63.05,62.10,61.12,61.02 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3206.70,3014.84,2251.56,3368.49 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2237.68,2199.87,2113.92,2188.60 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,2266.55,2193.43,2107.29,2209.97 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,12.47,13.04,13.15,12.04 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,294,1790,626,807 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,145.15,140.62,134.69,92.67 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,289,275,263,327 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,5372.23,6881.58,11402.39,9277.29 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,,0.44,0.59 "OpenArena - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,176.71,182.82 "C-Ray - Total Time (Performance/Watt)",HIB,,,1.53,2.27 "C-Ray - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,206.46,210.18 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (Performance/Watt)",HIB,,,0.82,0.66 "Smallpt - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,215.71,215.2 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec/Watt)",HIB,,,60.11,47.21 "Apache Benchmark - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,189.68,196.53 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS/Watt)",HIB,,,4.08,4.92 "PostMark - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,153.38,164.14 "Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.07,0.07 "Dbench - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,137.98,147.77 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.64,0.63 "IOzone - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,148.32,152.27 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance (MB/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.64,0.63 "IOzone - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,147.66,149.78 "IOzone - Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.60,0.59 "IOzone - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,147.91,151.7 "IOzone - Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance (MB/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.59,0.58 "IOzone - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,146.6,149.97 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.13,0.12 "FS-Mark - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,135.17,145.06 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync (Files/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.56,0.86 "FS-Mark - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,144.32,153.84 "FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.26,0.24 "FS-Mark - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,139.16,146.91 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.11,0.11 "FS-Mark - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,136.37,145.17 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.32,0.31 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,192.21,196.3 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s/Watt)",HIB,,,11.04,16.17 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,203.91,208.34 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s/Watt)",HIB,,,10.01,10.64 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,211.08,205.64 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s/Watt)",HIB,,,9.90,10.36 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,212.94,213.33 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s/Watt)",HIB,,,0.06,0.06 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,,209.36,210.95 "System Power Consumption Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring (Watts)",,,,152.86,158.89