Linux 3.18 Haswell-E Intel Performance A Kernel comparison via the Phoronix Test Suite. Linux 3.16: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1032/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-031600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 3.17: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1032/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-031700-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 3.18 Git: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1032/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 49.59 |====================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 49.17 |===================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 50.62 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 195.07 |====================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 190.80 |===================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 193.02 |===================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 49.51 |======================================================= Linux 3.17 ..... 49.55 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 48.93 |====================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 153.59 |============================================ Linux 3.17 ..... 161.13 |============================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 189.13 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 85.87 |===================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 89.03 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 88.97 |======================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 173.30 |===================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 176.80 |====================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 175.63 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 88.37 |======================================================= Linux 3.17 ..... 88.40 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 88.37 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 626.14 |=========================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 579.47 |======================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 781.04 |====================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 139.55 |========================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 143.47 |============================================ Linux 3.18 Git . 177.40 |====================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 3013 |============================= Linux 3.17 ..... 2173 |===================== Linux 3.18 Git . 5859 |======================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 128.20 |====================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 102.43 |=========================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 8.90 |==== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 7.7 MAX: 62.0 Linux 3.17 ..... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 9.6 MAX: 37.0 Linux 3.18 Git . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 7.5 MAX: 26.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 116.22 |=================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 105.02 |============================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 122.66 |====================================================== Warsow 1.51 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 76.70 |====================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 77.65 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 21.67 |=============== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 190.71 |================================= Linux 3.17 ..... 145.46 |========================= Linux 3.18 Git . 314.56 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 125.10 |====================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 92.70 |======================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 37.88 |================ Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 114.12 |====================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 84.11 |======================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 39.84 |=================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 848 |==================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 830 |=================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 921 |========================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 67160 |================================================= Linux 3.17 ..... 71432 |==================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 76055 |======================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 392.03 |========== Linux 3.17 ..... 390.86 |========== Linux 3.18 Git . 2023.45 |===================================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 80.59 |======================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 107.64 |====================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 36.76 |================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 51.50 |========= Linux 3.17 ..... 57.17 |========== Linux 3.18 Git . 307.65 |====================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 1.63 |=== Linux 3.17 ..... 5.35 |========== Linux 3.18 Git . 29.42 |======================================================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 67.13 |============= Linux 3.17 ..... 59.03 |=========== Linux 3.18 Git . 283.41 |====================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 662.68 |=================== Linux 3.17 ..... 964.47 |=========================== Linux 3.18 Git . 1865.02 |===================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 363.76 |===================================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 368.04 |====================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 63.69 |========= Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 94.93 |======================================================= Linux 3.17 ..... 93.94 |====================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 19.13 |=========== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 74.64 |================================================ Linux 3.17 ..... 86.12 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 12.97 |======== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 276 |========================================================= Linux 3.17 ..... 271 |======================================================== Linux 3.18 Git . 44 |========= Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 16020 |=========================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 20351 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 3507 |========= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 10.25 |=================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 16.16 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 7.02 |======================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 3.16 ..... 25.23 |========================================== Linux 3.17 ..... 32.84 |======================================================= Linux 3.18 Git . 12.70 |=====================