brutusdiag A Kernel comparison via the Phoronix Test Suite. no_c1e: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.49GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE 256MB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.7, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 driver_k16: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.49GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE 256MB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.7, Kernel: 3.16-0.bpo.3-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 athlon: Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 635 @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.7, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better no_c1e ..... 11.76 |================================== driver_k16 . 11.84 |================================== athlon ..... 20.25 |=========================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 3024 |============================================================ driver_k16 . 2604 |==================================================== athlon ..... 2569 |=================================================== Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better no_c1e ..... 23.28 |======================= driver_k16 . 20.04 |=================== athlon ..... 60.75 |=========================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 134.30 |========================================================== driver_k16 . 134.86 |========================================================== athlon ..... 52.63 |======================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 145.42 |========================================================== driver_k16 . 145.57 |========================================================== athlon ..... 62.93 |========================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 119 |============================================================= driver_k16 . 119 |============================================================= athlon ..... 94 |================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 618.56 |========================================================= driver_k16 . 627.51 |========================================================== athlon ..... 567.12 |==================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 18582 |=========================================================== driver_k16 . 18573 |=========================================================== athlon ..... 8413 |=========================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better no_c1e ..... 35.67 |=============================== driver_k16 . 35.70 |=============================== athlon ..... 68.22 |=========================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better no_c1e ..... 157.78 |====================================== driver_k16 . 157.38 |===================================== athlon ..... 243.42 |========================================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better no_c1e ..... 16.10 |============================== driver_k16 . 16.19 |============================== athlon ..... 31.87 |=========================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 610.50 |========================================================== driver_k16 . 610.40 |========================================================== athlon ..... 334.40 |================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 174.26 |========================================================== driver_k16 . 119.76 |======================================== athlon ..... 111.17 |===================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better no_c1e ..... 18684.96 |===================================================== driver_k16 . 19684.69 |======================================================== athlon ..... 9156.95 |========================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 1791.78 |===================================================== athlon ..... 1909.15 |========================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better driver_k16 . 28.53 |========================================= athlon ..... 40.85 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better driver_k16 . 9619.61 |========================================================= athlon ..... 8459.60 |================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better driver_k16 . 0.27 |================================ athlon ..... 0.50 |============================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 13.37 |==================================== athlon ..... 22.21 |=========================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 6.44 |================================ athlon ..... 11.87 |=========================================================== GMPbench 0.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better driver_k16 . 2274.40 |=============================================== athlon ..... 2730.10 |========================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better driver_k16 . 146 |============================================================= athlon ..... 109 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better driver_k16 . 73 |============================================================== athlon ..... 54 |============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 8.74 |======================== athlon ..... 21.54 |=========================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 113.04 |======================================================= athlon ..... 118.24 |========================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 85.89 |======================================= athlon ..... 129.39 |========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 22.68 |=================================================== athlon ..... 26.25 |=========================================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 12.52 |==================================================== athlon ..... 14.22 |=========================================================== Minion 0.15 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 123.45 |==================== athlon ..... 358.03 |========================================================== Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 599.34 |============================================= athlon ..... 779.56 |========================================================== POV-Ray 3.7.0 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 201.84 |========================================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 31.37 |=================================================== athlon ..... 35.97 |=========================================================== Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 22.10 |=================================== athlon ..... 37.01 |=========================================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 2703 |================================================= athlon ..... 3343 |============================================================ Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better driver_k16 . 4.11 |===================================== athlon ..... 6.71 |============================================================