A Kernel comparison up to Linux 3.15 kernel Git. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1404159-KH-LINUX315K27
Linux 3.15 Kernel Early Benchmarks,
"Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 - Test: FLOAT",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",367429814.34203,365078019.55939,367525368.13867
"Linux 3.13",366221087.26562,367042992.07442,367527264.55902
"Linux 3.14",363851934.62963,353827088.18608,352286095.21882
"Linux 3.15-rc1",367865373.37076,367606029.97238,367335535.92938
"FFmpeg 2.1.1 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",11.869492769241,11.879093885422,11.849015951157
"Linux 3.13",11.85745882988,11.829858064651,11.844623804092
"Linux 3.14",11.926398992538,11.767487049103,11.581292152405
"Linux 3.15-rc1",12.005218029022,11.736572027206,11.627552986145
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",4.536544084549,4.5222580432892,4.5214359760284,4.5202660560608,4.5209059715271
"Linux 3.13",4.5375351905823,4.5202360153198,4.5188760757446,4.517098903656,4.5214989185333
"Linux 3.14",4.5588748455048,4.51784491539,4.5187721252441,4.5438289642334,4.5185220241547
"Linux 3.15-rc1",4.5358831882477,4.529440164566,4.5170187950134,4.5190398693085,4.5165200233459
"ebizzy 0.3 - Records/s",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",42628,42572,42551
"Linux 3.13",42631,42776,42916
"Linux 3.14",43363,43473,43063
"Linux 3.15-rc1",44062,44125,44077
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",22.92,22.916,22.91
"Linux 3.13",22.908,22.918,22.922
"Linux 3.14",22.899,22.986,22.953
"Linux 3.15-rc1",22.956,22.918,22.939
"Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",25.249345064163,25.121569871902,25.169373035431
"Linux 3.13",25.21230006218,25.840379953384,25.07985496521
"Linux 3.14",25.97376704216,25.045281887054,25.027324199677
"Linux 3.15-rc1",24.88397693634,24.848315000534,24.813680887222
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",75.020323038101,73.805395841599,73.955803871155
"Linux 3.13",75.075778007507,73.692706108093,73.75076007843
"Linux 3.14",75.151200056076,73.870616912842,73.837323904037
"Linux 3.15-rc1",74.54078912735,73.100295066833,73.122897863388
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",1749.553608,1744.451116,1746.227248
"Linux 3.13",1743.554658,1740.510719,1732.04745
"Linux 3.14",1707.836671,1736.752974,1738.447584
"Linux 3.15-rc1",1722.823242,1734.200618,1741.003788
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",98,98,98
"Linux 3.13",101,101,101
"Linux 3.14",100,101,100
"Linux 3.15-rc1",101,101,101
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 - Operation: HWB Color Space",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",209,209,209
"Linux 3.13",214,215,215
"Linux 3.14",214,214,215
"Linux 3.15-rc1",215,214,215
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 - Operation: Resizing",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",170,170,170
"Linux 3.13",175,175,175
"Linux 3.14",175,174,175
"Linux 3.15-rc1",175,174,175
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 - Operation: Sharpen",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",85,85,85
"Linux 3.13",86,86,86
"Linux 3.14",86,86,86
"Linux 3.15-rc1",86,86,86
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 - Operation: Blur",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",135,134,135
"Linux 3.13",141,141,141
"Linux 3.14",141,141,141
"Linux 3.15-rc1",141,141,140
"x264 2014-01-09 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",183.89,184.8,183.24,186.71,182.88
"Linux 3.13",182.88,184.51,184.55,181.54,184.36
"Linux 3.14",184.77,183.16,184.59,187.66,186.94
"Linux 3.15-rc1",184.2,187.36,184.57,185.19,184.84
"John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: MD5",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",84041,83968,83633
"Linux 3.13",83968,84041,84041
"Linux 3.14",83558,83968,83968
"Linux 3.15-rc1",83874,84041,84041
"John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: Traditional DES",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",10315000,10301000,10315000
"Linux 3.13",10302000,10301000,10321000
"Linux 3.14",10301000,10321000,10321000
"Linux 3.15-rc1",10321000,10281000,10315000
"John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: Blowfish",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",6639,6639,6643
"Linux 3.13",6629,6643,6652
"Linux 3.14",6652,6652,6639
"Linux 3.15-rc1",6604,6652,6639
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",5.3652899265289,5.3023679256439,5.8527960777283,5.3014991283417,5.4422030448914,5.3177311420441
"Linux 3.13",6.0220220088959,5.9153339862823,5.333801984787,5.270653963089,5.9469170570374,5.2906188964844
"Linux 3.14",5.3143718242645,5.3636558055878,5.6752631664276,5.273540019989
"Linux 3.15-rc1",5.638267993927,5.3646860122681,5.6361129283905
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",12.139307975769,11.995126008987,12.080487966537
"Linux 3.13",12.213320970535,12.062718153,12.046342134476
"Linux 3.14",12.128839969635,12.054206848145,12.057296037674
"Linux 3.15-rc1",12.136034011841,12.061357021332,12.054264068604
"Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",21.189913988113,21.096472024918,21.113455057144
"Linux 3.13",21.008576869965,20.830823898315,20.853157043457
"Linux 3.14",21.010401010513,21.335763931274,20.925860881805
"Linux 3.15-rc1",21.077685117722,20.906450033188,20.945870161057
"GpuTest 0.7.0 - Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",6692,6583,6734
"Linux 3.13",52089,50325,51960
"Linux 3.14",49360,52184,52168
"GpuTest 0.7.0 - Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",171,171,169
"Linux 3.13",1487,1488,1488
"Linux 3.14",1488,1488,1487
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",23.171235,23.1473638,23.1676998
"Linux 3.13",156.481188,157.4360746,156.0017781
"Linux 3.14",150.7545694,150.9297875,150.5370235
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",48.7936404,48.7551407,48.9553382
"Linux 3.13",305.9827294,308.192777,308.025542
"Linux 3.14",249.6482542,245.0056208,246.1446394
"Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",
"Linux 3.13",
"Linux 3.14",
"Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",21.5,21.5,21.3
"Linux 3.13",154.7,154.4,154.6
"Linux 3.14",155,154.8,154.9
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",
"Linux 3.13",
"Linux 3.14",
"Linux 3.15-rc1",
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",22.3,22.3,22.3
"Linux 3.13",168.6,168.9,168.8
"Linux 3.14",168.6,168.2,168.6
"Linux 3.15-rc1",166,166.7,166.5
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",5208,5319,5208
"Linux 3.13",5102,5208,5000
"Linux 3.14",5208,5208,5102
"Linux 3.15-rc1",5208,5208,5102
"Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",3.713,3.472,2.591,2.551,2.534,2.668
"Linux 3.13",3.321,3.304,2.502,2.579,2.428,2.484
"Linux 3.14",3.172,2.473,2.448,2.446,2.447,2.466
"Linux 3.15-rc1",3.565,2.396,2.408,2.546,2.508,2.359
"Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",1.863,1.85,1.868
"Linux 3.13",1.849,1.881,1.849
"Linux 3.14",1.971,1.884,1.781,1.787,1.884,1.868
"Linux 3.15-rc1",2.044,1.831,1.803,1.801,2.021,1.831
"Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1",
Higher Results Are Better
"Linux 3.12",81.8752,81.4407,81.6656
"Linux 3.13",80.6812,80.8414,80.9018
"Linux 3.14",82.3294,81.7702,82.169
"Linux 3.15-rc1",82.4904,81.7819,81.5041