Intel Ultrabook - Fedora 18 vs. Ubuntu 13.04 Ubuntu 13.04 and Fedora 18 benchmarks from an (ASUS) Intel Ultrabook with Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor and HD 4000 graphics. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel. Ubuntu 13.04: Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: intel 2.21.4, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Fedora 18: Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 + Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.8.4-202.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.5, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.1, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 559 |============= Fedora 18 .... 2551 |========================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 11822.71 |====================================================== Fedora 18 .... 5317.90 |======================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 340.18 |======================================================== Fedora 18 .... 309.32 |=================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 33.13 |====================================================== Fedora 18 .... 34.97 |========================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 49 |========================================================== Fedora 18 .... 51 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 60 |========================================================== Fedora 18 .... 62 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 81 |=========================================================== Fedora 18 .... 83 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 42 |=========================================================== Fedora 18 .... 43 |============================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 128.80 |======================================================== Fedora 18 .... 126.80 |======================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 405 |========================================================== Fedora 18 .... 411 |=========================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 51.01 |========================================================= Fedora 18 .... 51.46 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 135.66 |======================================================== Fedora 18 .... 136.33 |======================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 2689.99 |======================================================= Fedora 18 .... 2683.71 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 25 |============================================================ Fedora 18 .... 25 |============================================================ LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 83.32 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 53.41 |========================================================= Fedora 18 .... 52.03 |======================================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 79.64 |========================================================= Fedora 18 .... 79.68 |========================================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 . 14.11 |============================ Fedora 18 .... 29.23 |=========================================================