Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Amazon EC2 Cloud
Benchmarks of an Amazon EC2 c3.2xlarge cloud instance running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from a 26 February 2014 development snapshot. Tests by Michael Larabel of Ubuntu Linux in the Amazon EC2 Compute Cloud. Mostly focused on CPU benchmarks but also some other subsystem tests. Benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 12GB

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-58-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 10GB

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 1
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 87.08 |============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 64.73 |=================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP LBM
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 247.86 |==========================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 253.41 |===========================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP CUTCP
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 19.86 |============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 18.56 |=========================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP MRI-Q
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 26.09 |============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 19.86 |=================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 5033 |=============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 5017 |=============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 17617000 |=========================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 8416333  |====================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 70170 |============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 69808 |============================================


x264 2014-01-09
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 131.09 |===========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 66 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 64 |==============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 123 |==============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 117 |============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 149 |==============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 142 |============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 65 |==============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 66 |===============================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 24.60 |============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 24.41 |============================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 46.10 |========================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 51.24 |============================================


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 56.33 |=====================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 66.14 |============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .......... 113.06 |======================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 127.47 |===========================================


FFmpeg 2.1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 15.64 |============================================