ASUS Zenbook Prime Linux Performance

Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com of the ASUS Zenbook Prime ASUS UX32VDA running Ubuntu 13.10 Linux and compared to numerous other laptops. Other ASUS Zenbook Linux Ultrabook Intel Ivy Bridge / Haswell benchmarks forthcoming on Phoronix. Graphics results in other Phoronix article.

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ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400
December 02 2013
 
ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300
December 02 2013
 
ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM
December 02 2013
 
MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M
December 03 2013
 
ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U
December 03 2013
 
EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M
December 03 2013
 
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December 05 2013
 
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ASUS Zenbook Prime Linux Performance, "x264 2013-06-08 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",58.84,61.97,61.75,61.79,61.71 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",31.37,31.95,32.04,32.23,31.97 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",13.49,13.6,13.62,13.68,13.59 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",60.72,61.75,61.19,61.43,61.61 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",40.19,40.92,41.2,41.41,41.06 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",23.29,23.25,23.41,23.34,23.44 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",63.02,63.53,63.78,63.82,63.42 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",700,698,710 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",696,692,684 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",70,70,70 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",1543,1524,1543 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",722,722,720 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",1063,1077,1082 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",2500,2500,2500 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: EP-DGEMM", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",2.30326,2.32093,2.31992 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",6.00859,6.22194,8.18799 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",4.56741,4.57078,4.57186 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",2.97551,2.98889,2.98986 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",1.72406,1.72236,1.72324 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",4.63992,4.66206,4.66442 "Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 - WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode", Lower Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",14.93639588356,14.895359992981,14.840962171555,14.830276966095,14.835546016693 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",18.33970284462,18.299021959305,18.311295032501,18.320775985718,18.334139823914 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",45.125443220139,44.882707118988,44.825990915298,44.889425039291,44.830525875092 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",11.499019145966,11.520320177078,11.523464202881,11.5337870121,11.531237840652 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",19.597604990005,19.570906162262,19.485609054565,19.495234966278,19.487939119339 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",34.085274934769,34.226012945175,34.115610122681,34.134473085403,34.110981941223 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",11.721249103546,11.752432107925,11.722235202789,11.73172712326,11.718785047531 "VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 - vpxenc", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",10.07,10.1,10.12 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",9.77,10.15,10.13 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",4.33,4.33,4.37 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",16.61,16.68,16.7 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",10.42,10.59,10.52 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",5.92,5.83,5.89 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",16.55,16.48,16.46 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",61.49,61.507,61.487 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",93.551,93.481,95.616 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",219.645,219.961,219.648 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",74.443,74.426,74.412 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",114.518,114.438,114.585 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",164.194,164.598,164.358 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",73.501,73.484,73.521 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: G-Ptrans", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",1.06652,1.08546,1.06788 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",0.605825,0.622638,0.668139 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",0.370661,0.367839,0.372007 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",0.415564,0.42503,0.426413 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",0.309578,0.309946,0.307146 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",0.585671,0.575575,0.585378 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: Random Ring Latency", Lower Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",1.38819,1.406,1.39297 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",0.495024,0.476349,0.466997 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",0.570817,0.581322,0.557234 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",0.930184,0.934114,0.922307 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",1.62524,1.63546,1.64971 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",0.597577,0.587259,0.600696 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",1.24702,1.21185,1.21901 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",1.88267,1.85446,1.89475 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",1.84038,1.82686,1.7871 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",2.1944,2.1387,2.10731 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",1.96727,1.953,1.95998 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",3.31602,3.32056,3.30726 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: G-HPL", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",16.4555,16.475,16.4912 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",10.7551,10.7686,9.9484 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",16.8029,16.8147,16.7913 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",11.1566,11.142,11.2012 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",6.45338,6.44718,6.47556 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",17.1267,17.185,17.0655 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: G-Random Access", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",0.021018,0.0220124,0.0206333 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",0.00956968,0.00956609,0.00861119 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",0.02049,0.0204895,0.0204417 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",0.015808,0.0153538,0.0154274 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",0.00898978,0.00789468,0.00787885 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",0.0225412,0.0211698,0.0218129 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",1140.261417,1140.670636,1139.528624 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",914.376507,913.056942,924.913795 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",539.537424,538.212846,538.262825 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",1314.928378,1311.517363,1314.543482 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",781.176648,779.899785,778.337408 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",501.154358,501.280218,501.141808 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",1290.882267,1290.389992,1289.610372 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",0.558692,0.556485,0.553223 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",0.859515,0.865525,0.866982 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",0.761626,0.763205,0.76777 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",0.901227,0.898821,0.893096 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",0.796133,0.803534,0.78862 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",1.4006,1.40112,1.41892 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",4524.6,4545.439,4545.439 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",6260.155,5779.268,6278.898 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",4607.859,4607.859,4656.457 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",4673.319,4825.199,4889.891 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",3032.21,2995.931,2989.525 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",7463.174,7351.979,7449.918 "HPC Challenge 1.4.3 - Test / Class: G-Ffte", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",1.97553,1.96394,1.98307 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",0.994691,0.994235,0.932091 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",1.42383,1.40846,1.39978 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",1.44279,1.42627,1.44092 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",1.01713,1.03351,1.01878 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",2.2018,2.1899,2.20029 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",42.37,41.21,43.14 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",39.72,38.92,39.51 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",22.12,22.29,21.96 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",106.7,108.58,107.88 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",59.11,60.7,61.46 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",232.02,258.25,260.54,259.2,258.52,256.26 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",235.24,231.39,238.34 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",55.76,64.3,59.03 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",41.63,45.18,46.37 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",19.25,19.85,19.51 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",104.37,112.25,120.4 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",76.4,74.38,77.23 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",83.1,90.48,92.81 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",189.48,220.3 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree", Higher Results Are Better "ThinkPad W510 - Core i7 720QM",56.44,48.72,50.09 "ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo T9300",38.76,33.62,39.17 "ThinkPad T60 - Core Duo T2400",14.62,15.05,15.2 "EliteBook 161C - Core i5 2520M",150.86,147.25,147.38 "ASUS S56C - Core i3 3217U",88.37,96.55,130.96 "MacBook Pro - Core i5 520M",138.83,138.34,139.58 "Zenbook Prime - Core i7 3517U",208.46,176.3,199.06