Intel Core i7-4750HQ testing of various Linux kernel releases. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.
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Intel Core i7 Haswell Linux 3.12 Kernel,
"Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",33650.35,33740.34,33405
"Linux 3.11",28381.35,28456.94,27887.46
"Linux 3.10",26721.52,26561.1,26221.23
"Linux 3.9",32068.65,31592.13,31760.59
"Linux 3.8",33342.1,32980.82,32722.49
"Minion 0.15 - Benchmark: Quasigroup",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",148.092484,149.179144,148.607464
"Linux 3.11",147.76234,148.712726,148.298532
"Linux 3.10",149.334705,148.111758,148.612638
"Linux 3.9",148.706393,148.739738,148.630377
"Linux 3.8",147.866268,149.38424,148.843916
"Minion 0.15 - Benchmark: Solitaire",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",82.809373,83.797677,83.540617
"Linux 3.11",83.642122,83.247728,83.339809
"Linux 3.10",83.469563,83.945679,83.796372
"Linux 3.9",83.188731,83.845906,83.888338
"Linux 3.8",83.070569,84.033832,83.604875
"Minion 0.15 - Benchmark: Graceful",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",69.396839,69.512207,69.811792
"Linux 3.11",69.45343,69.763824,69.689277
"Linux 3.10",69.902369,69.833977,70.122503
"Linux 3.9",69.733698,70.158949,70.49957
"Linux 3.8",69.901428,69.635106,70.059619
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 - 256MB File Compression",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",8.4638669490814,7.7821619510651,7.8104047775269,7.8584551811218,7.7912631034851,7.8091111183167
"Linux 3.11",8.6029620170593,7.8218419551849,7.8181338310242,7.7939310073853,7.8112978935242,7.8562631607056
"Linux 3.10",8.6143219470978,7.860347032547,7.8417840003967,7.8693730831146,7.8328440189362,7.8237910270691
"Linux 3.9",8.5115909576416,7.8005540370941,7.8178019523621,7.8146479129791,7.993310213089,8.2966561317444
"Linux 3.8",8.3299510478973,7.8120369911194,7.8446879386902,7.963742017746
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",28.249,28.266,28.252
"Linux 3.11",28.271,28.335,28.281
"Linux 3.10",28.263,28.272,28.293
"Linux 3.9",28.255,28.306,28.269
"Linux 3.8",28.254,28.263,28.27
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",87.881613016129,87.238632202148,87.327013015747
"Linux 3.11",89.761033058167,88.770493030548,89.121791124344
"Linux 3.10",89.929752111435,89.04079413414,88.698242902756
"Linux 3.9",87.513466119766,86.501796007156,86.842359781265
"Linux 3.8",87.746814966202,86.572221040726,86.679680109024
"x264 2013-06-08 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",151.88,152.32,152.06,151.41,153.57
"Linux 3.11",150.19,152.25,150.54,151.49,152.4
"Linux 3.10",151,152.54,151.69,152.46,152.56
"Linux 3.9",150.24,153.11,152.93,151.72,151.29
"Linux 3.8",151.27,152.5,152.42,152.31,152.48
"PolyBench-C 3.2 - Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",22.728564023972,22.983494997025,22.717653036118
"Linux 3.11",22.455832958221,22.619053840637,22.589827060699
"Linux 3.10",23.901793003082,22.804977893829,22.732553958893
"Linux 3.9",23.018609046936,22.600121021271,23.002071142197
"Linux 3.8",22.597909927368,22.955239057541,22.575115919113
"PolyBench-C 3.2 - Test: Correlation Computation",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",5.4570229053497,5.4488101005554,5.479444026947
"Linux 3.11",5.4506709575653,5.4536619186401,5.4424078464508
"Linux 3.10",5.4686210155487,5.4495580196381,5.4808950424194
"Linux 3.9",5.498242855072,5.4761691093445,5.4897611141205
"Linux 3.8",5.4885380268097,5.5043098926544,5.4608561992645
"PolyBench-C 3.2 - Test: Covariance Computation",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",5.470193862915,5.4376001358032,5.469064950943
"Linux 3.11",5.4706029891968,5.7511508464813,5.5048069953918
"Linux 3.10",5.464674949646,5.5022161006927,5.7228188514709
"Linux 3.9",5.4910199642181,5.4767160415649,5.4925458431244
"Linux 3.8",5.5017759799957,5.4776721000671,5.4956171512604
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",74.5451262,76.0815888,73.9317204
"Linux 3.11",74.785277,74.2472134,74.592159
"Linux 3.10",73.5632722,73.1255163,72.7302128
"Linux 3.9",61.2769801,61.2783832,61.0505182
"Linux 3.8",61.9820353,63.4690876,61.6275705
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",122.2397855,120.6705188,121.8708033
"Linux 3.11",125.479095,123.8373343,124.4894494
"Linux 3.10",119.4625225,118.9495225,119.1939368
"Linux 3.9",103.5592895,103.0924985,102.9707675
"Linux 3.8",105.7082621,104.3898567,104.1443125
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",226.6758576,234.0163023,239.0159984
"Linux 3.11",250.3979379,251.6023852,249.7716399
"Linux 3.10",231.3497132,230.6521918,230.9141989
"Linux 3.9",247.7165414,246.7724866,244.5452575
"Linux 3.8",244.0092246,246.211985,245.2948846
"Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",
"Linux 3.11",
"Linux 3.10",
"Linux 3.9",
"Linux 3.8",
"Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",188.8,201.4,200.4,202
"Linux 3.11",208.4,211,209.8
"Linux 3.10",203.7,201.5,206.7
"Linux 3.9",102.9,107.7,103.5
"Linux 3.8",105,104.4,103.5
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",
"Linux 3.11",
"Linux 3.10",
"Linux 3.9",
"Linux 3.8",
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",72.1,69.8,69.6
"Linux 3.11",71.7,69.2,70.1
"Linux 3.10",71.6,25,71.2,70,70.1,70.2
"Linux 3.9",41,41.2,40.5
"Linux 3.8",41.1,41.1,41.1
"OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",321.8,340.3,336.6
"Linux 3.11",319.9,346.6,334.3,341.2
"Linux 3.10",309,321.1,318.3
"Linux 3.9",313.3,317.4,314.8
"Linux 3.8",308.8,316.4,307.5
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",5102,5102,5102
"Linux 3.11",4385,4385,4385
"Linux 3.10",4385,4385,4385
"Linux 3.9",5319,5319,5208
"Linux 3.8",5434,5434,5555
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",352.67,362.73,356.91
"Linux 3.11",281.72,290.99,307.08
"Linux 3.10",199.63,318.41,309.38,315.56,317.47,312.94
"Linux 3.9",328.7,366.51,364.24
"Linux 3.8",331.46,371.61,359.2
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12 Git",697.41,698.66,702.37
"Linux 3.11",683.77,695.85,694.68
"Linux 3.10",612.76,697.89,695.85,697.51,696.3,699.28
"Linux 3.9",691.87,704.67,703.52
"Linux 3.8",714.24,720.9,726.64