Ubuntu 12.04 vs. 14.04 Linux Benchmarks

Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Audio Encoding 2 Tests
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Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
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December 02 2014
 
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December 01 2014
 
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Ubuntu 12.04 vs. 14.04 Linux Benchmarks Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"Ubuntu 14.10","Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS" Processor,,2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores),2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores),2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,TYAN S2932/S2932-E,TYAN S2932/S2932-E,TYAN S2932/S2932-E Chipset,,NVIDIA MCP55,NVIDIA MCP55,NVIDIA MCP55 Memory,,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB Disk,,64GB AGILITY-EX,64GB AGILITY-EX,64GB AGILITY-EX Graphics,,AMD ES1000 1024MB,AMD ES1000 1024MB,AMD ES1000 1024MB Audio,,AMD Cypress HDMI Audio,AMD Cypress HDMI Audio,AMD Cypress HDMI Audio Monitor,,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W OS,,Ubuntu 14.10,Ubuntu 14.04,Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel,,3.16.0-23-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-32-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-32-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 7.3.1,Unity 7.2.2,Unity 5.20.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.16.0,X Server 1.15.1,X Server 1.15.1 Display Driver,,radeon 7.4.0,radeon 7.3.0,radeon 7.3.0 OpenGL,,3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4,3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.9.1,GCC 4.8.2,GCC 4.6.3 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Ubuntu 14.10","Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS","Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS" "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Random Access (GUP/s)",HIB,0.04441,0.04559,0.00878 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,25.12,27.04,51.96 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-HPL (GFLOPS)",HIB,51.24797,55.42987,30.71193 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: EP-DGEMM (GFLOPS)",HIB,7.87831,8.26213,4.84824 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Ffte (GFLOPS)",HIB,1.33207,1.96760,1.93803 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: Random Ring Latency (usecs)",LIB,1.45841,1.42578,1.94504 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Ptrans (GB/s)",HIB,0.95324,1.21289,1.24452 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,18748.86,16488.83,15973.02 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,35.18,40.48,40.64 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth (MB/s)",HIB,2213.196,2158.304,1916.467 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,2442,2272,2161 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,129.87,126.11,116.02 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,38.46,38.04,35.27 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,48.55,49.13,45.71 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,26.25,26.99,26.11 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,15.21,15.20,15.67 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.C (Mop/s)",HIB,171.57,169.37, "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,16.43,16.48,16.60 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,7250.17,7187.33, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,1541.66,1531.05, "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,111.32,110.90, "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth (GB/s)",HIB,0.31111,0.35761,0.35280 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad (GB/s)",HIB,1.50313,1.20592,1.67894