Distribution Comparison Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 testing with a Gigabyte H81M-S1 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550 on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ubuntu 15.10: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 24.41 |======================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 24.63 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 810.78 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 408.83 |======================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 6881 |========================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 14727.13 |====================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 2679.08 |======================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 283.37 |======================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 8120.30 |======================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 244.31 |======================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 22.50 |========================================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.91 |========================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 4.69 |========================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 185.39 |======================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 1957.41 |======================================================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 28.17 |========================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 113.64 |======================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 113.80 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 23.50 |========================================================= Ubuntu 15.10 . 23.51 |========================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.41 |========================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 77 |============================================================ PBZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.46 |========================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.39 |========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 6.06 |========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 11.73 |========================================================= FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.91 |========================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.96 |========================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 73.28 |========================================================= GnuPG Linux 4.3 Package File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 14.28 |========================================================= Ubuntu 15.10 . 14.25 |========================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 597.50 |======================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.2d RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 665.10 |======================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 665.43 |======================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 0.04 |========================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 2992.59 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 6830.45 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 7515.36 |======================================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 2282625.67 |==================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 1668520.91 |=================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 1706687.96 |==================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 37189.48 |======================================================