Fedora 18 Updates Testing
Testing Fedora updates to Fedora 18 Linux x86_64 from a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 with Intel Core i7 CPU. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel.


Fedora 18 Stock: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300

	OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900

Fedora 18 Updated: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300

	OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.8.6-203.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.6, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 34.96 |====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 26.62 |========================================


BLAKE2 20121223
Phoronix Test Suite v4.6.0m1
Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 3.78 |=====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 3.63 |===================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 23.05 |====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 23.25 |====================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock . 107.50 |=====================================================


Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 48.73 |================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 53.00 |====================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 60.40 |====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 60.23 |====================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 35.30 |====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 35.33 |====================================================


Primesieve 4.2
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 228.96 |==================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 231.29 |===================================================


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1600 x 900 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 25.99 |====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 18.59 |=====================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 3224 |=====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 3074 |===================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 175.72 |===================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 176.61 |===================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: Blur
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 76 |=======================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 76 |=======================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 46 |=======================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 44 |=====================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 91 |=======================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 91 |=======================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 111 |======================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 111 |======================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 59 |=======================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 59 |=======================================================


x264 2013-01-28
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 60.88 |====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 61.10 |====================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 78.19 |====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 78.29 |====================================================


FFmpeg 1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 27.12 |===================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 27.48 |====================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 290 |=====================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 297 |======================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.3
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 5703.97 |==================================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 5427.10 |================================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
TPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 18 Stock ... 2390.01 |===============================================
Fedora 18 Updated . 2532.46 |==================================================