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