Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com looking at the evolving Ubuntu 12.04 LTS performance with new hardware enablement stacks in the Precise Pangolin point releases then compared to an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS development snapshot.
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Performance Comparison
Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com looking at the evolving Ubuntu 12.04 LTS performance with new hardware enablement stacks in the Precise Pangolin point releases then compared to an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS development snapshot.
,,"Ubuntu 12.04.3","Ubuntu 12.04.4","Ubuntu 12.04.2","Ubuntu 14.04 20140208"
Processor,,Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores)
Motherboard,,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C
Chipset,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM
Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB
Disk,,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160
Graphics,,Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) (1300MHz),Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),Intel HD 3000
Audio,,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5
Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 14.04
Kernel,,3.8.0-29-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-15-generic (x86_64),3.5.0-23-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-8-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 5.20.0,Unity 5.20.0,Unity 5.18.0,Unity 7.1.2
Display Server,,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.15.0
Display Driver,,intel 2.21.6,intel 2.99.904,intel 2.20.9,intel 2.99.909
OpenGL,,3.0 Mesa 9.1.4,3.0 Mesa 9.2.1,3.0 Mesa 9.0,
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.8
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900
,,"Ubuntu 12.04.3","Ubuntu 12.04.4","Ubuntu 12.04.2","Ubuntu 14.04 20140208"
"FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,26.69,26.24,26.75,27.26
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,21.29,22.21,22.21,22.70
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,115.52,115.59,115.77,74.34
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,203.05,204.08,202.19,225.74
"Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,62.93,62.72,62.50,69.61
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1270.81,1273.77,1276.42,1299.58
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,71,70,70,74
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,128,129,129,126
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,102,102,102,103
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,41,41,41,41
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,81,81,81,82
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,16.87,16.77,16.87,16.24
"BLAKE2 - Phoronix Test Suite v5.0.0m1 (Cycles/Byte)",LIB,4.62,4.62,4.70,4.61
"HPC Challenge - Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad (GB/s)",HIB,1.81823,1.82226,1.81366,1.90933
"HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Ptrans (GB/s)",HIB,0.37108,0.36951,0.36452,0.42453
"HPC Challenge - Test / Class: EP-DGEMM (GFLOPS)",HIB,2.23567,2.23256,2.23488,4.60336
"HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Ffte (GFLOPS)",HIB,1.42993,1.42418,1.42446,1.40609
"HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-HPL (GFLOPS)",HIB,8.37216,8.36751,8.43749,16.91387
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,31.40,33.34,28.48,33.81
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,44.84,48.78,38.89,49.66
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,88.20,92.81,74.29,92.29
"Reaction Quake 3 - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,16.91,14.6,20.38,16.08
"Reaction Quake 3 - Resolution: 1600 x 900 (FPS)",HIB,58.83,68,48.87,61.83
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,36.67,36.33,44.59,37.76
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1600 x 900 (FPS)",HIB,27.23,27.47,22.43,26.37
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1633,1549,1666,1546
"Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,190.87,195.99,210.59,279.74