Ubuntu 16.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 12.04 Linux 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 benchmarks on Ubuntu LTS Linux of 16.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 12.04 so far. Linux performance tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.
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Ubuntu 16.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 12.04 Linux Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores) TYAN S2932/S2932-E NVIDIA MCP55 16384MB 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB AMD Cypress HDMI Audio SyncMaster Ubuntu 16.04 4.4.0-2-generic (x86_64) Unity 7.4.0 X Server 1.17.3 radeon 7.6.1 3.3 Mesa 11.1.1 Gallium 0.4 GCC 5.3.1 20160121 ext4 2560x1600 Ubuntu 14.04 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64) Unity 7.2.0 X Server 1.15.1 radeon 7.3.0 3.3 Mesa 10.1.0 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.8.4 Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5800 1024MB AMD ATI Cypress HDMI Audio Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.10.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6.3 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-libmudflap --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v Disk Details - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr Processor Details - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Scaling Governor: powernow-k8 ondemand Graphics Details - EXA System Details - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203: Python 2.7.11. - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Python 2.7.6. - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Python 2.7.3.
Ubuntu 16.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 12.04 Linux apache: Static Web Page Serving redis: SET redis: GET ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 encode-flac: WAV To FLAC c-ray: Total Time build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile build-apache: Time To Compile himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver x264: H.264 Video Encoding john-the-ripper: Blowfish fftw: Float + SSE - 2D FFT Size 2048 lammps: Rhodopsin Protein dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics gputest: Pixmark Volplosion - 1920 x 1080 - Fullscreen gputest: Pixmark Piano - 1920 x 1080 - Fullscreen gputest: Triangle - 1920 x 1080 - Fullscreen gputest: Furmark - 1920 x 1080 - Fullscreen gputest: Plot3D - 1920 x 1080 - Fullscreen xonotic: 2560 x 1600 - Ultra xonotic: 2560 x 1600 - High xonotic: 2560 x 1600 - Low tesseract: 1920 x 1080 openarena: 1920 x 1080 openarena: 2560 x 1600 compilebench: Initial Create compilebench: Compile dbench: 12 fs-mark: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size fs-mark: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads fs-mark: 1000 Files, 1MB Size sqlite: Default Test Directory Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 16377.05 734965.37 996091.46 25.87 26.82 14.96 25.08 126.68 50.33 517.37 107.86 6068 4441.90 81.03 59.58 13953 20812 68906 887 9962 71.38 102.01 155.67 82.54 91.10 183.83 185.93 359.92 109.43 29.30 64.93 29.80 330.64 15359.46 669691.96 885274.69 31.67 27.65 14.97 27.15 138.53 52.60 512.70 112.30 5935 4538.98 82.50 57.43 14784 21252 43650 696 9663 64.39 87.87 148.21 79.78 87.40 194.03 137.02 207.67 111.32 28.63 64.27 28.47 333.39 17893.86 732768.46 971285.44 41.46 27.51 15.14 51.91 123.25 49.84 395.46 6284 4367.54 56.98 32.97 66.90 136.46 220.15 109.93 30.20 64.67 29.60 459.03 OpenBenchmarking.org
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 157.95, N = 3 SE +/- 37.78, N = 3 SE +/- 260.55, N = 3 17893.86 15359.46 16377.05 1. (CC) gcc options: -shared -fPIC -pthread -O3 -march=native
Redis Test: SET OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 160K 320K 480K 640K 800K SE +/- 7857.24, N = 3 SE +/- 4044.61, N = 3 SE +/- 8836.20, N = 3 732768.46 669691.96 734965.37 -std=gnu99 -pipe -g3 -O3 -funroll-loops -march=native -std=gnu99 -pipe -g3 -O3 -funroll-loops -march=native 1. (CC) gcc options: -ggdb -rdynamic -lm -pthread -ldl
Redis Test: GET OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 200K 400K 600K 800K 1000K SE +/- 6855.97, N = 3 SE +/- 5069.84, N = 3 SE +/- 19232.00, N = 3 971285.44 885274.69 996091.46 -std=gnu99 -pipe -g3 -O3 -funroll-loops -march=native -std=gnu99 -pipe -g3 -O3 -funroll-loops -march=native 1. (CC) gcc options: -ggdb -rdynamic -lm -pthread -ldl
FFmpeg H.264 HD To NTSC DV OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 41.46 31.67 25.87 -lrt -lXv -lXext -lxcb-xfixes -lxcb-render -lxcb-shape -llzma -lXv -lXext -lxcb-xfixes -lxcb-render -lxcb-shape -lsndio -llzma 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -lxcb -lX11 -lasound -lSDL -lm -pthread -O3 -march=native -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.04, N = 5 27.51 27.65 26.82 -lncurses 1. (CC) gcc options: -pipe -O3 -march=native -lm
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.04, N = 5 SE +/- 0.13, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 15.14 14.97 14.96 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=native -fvisibility=hidden -logg -lm
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 51.91 27.15 25.08 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3 -march=native
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 1.38, N = 3 SE +/- 1.90, N = 6 SE +/- 1.79, N = 3 123.25 138.53 126.68
Timed Apache Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 49.84 52.60 50.33
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 110 220 330 440 550 SE +/- 2.42, N = 3 SE +/- 2.32, N = 3 SE +/- 4.15, N = 3 395.46 512.70 517.37 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.64, N = 5 SE +/- 0.86, N = 5 112.30 107.86 1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -march=native -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 21.85, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 6.69, N = 3 6284 5935 6068 1. (CC) gcc options: -fopenmp -lcrypt
FFTW Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 2048 OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 2048 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 91.81, N = 10 SE +/- 88.60, N = 10 SE +/- 4.41, N = 5 4367.54 4538.98 4441.90 -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native -lm
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator Test: Rhodopsin Protein OpenBenchmarking.org Loop Time, Fewer Is Better LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 82.50 81.03 1. (CXX) g++ options: -lfftw -lmpich
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 56.98 57.43 59.58
GpuTest Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen OpenBenchmarking.org Points, More Is Better GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 24.19, N = 3 SE +/- 8.76, N = 3 14784 13953
GpuTest Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen OpenBenchmarking.org Points, More Is Better GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 50.58, N = 3 SE +/- 106.47, N = 3 21252 20812
GpuTest Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen OpenBenchmarking.org Points, More Is Better GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 15K 30K 45K 60K 75K SE +/- 1.45, N = 3 SE +/- 7.69, N = 3 43650 68906
GpuTest Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen OpenBenchmarking.org Points, More Is Better GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 696 887
GpuTest Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen OpenBenchmarking.org Points, More Is Better GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 9663 9962
Xonotic Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.48, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 64.39 71.38 MIN: 28 / MAX: 127 MIN: 30 / MAX: 144
Xonotic Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 87.87 102.01 MIN: 41 / MAX: 170 MIN: 48 / MAX: 210
Xonotic Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 148.21 155.67 MIN: 71 / MAX: 253 MIN: 73 / MAX: 297
Tesseract Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 79.78 82.54
OpenArena Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time OpenBenchmarking.org Milliseconds, Fewer Is Better OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 11 22 33 44 55 Min: 3 / Avg: 29.56 / Max: 49 Min: 5 / Avg: 11.24 / Max: 44 Min: 4 / Avg: 10.71 / Max: 54
OpenArena Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 SE +/- 1.04, N = 3 32.97 87.40 91.10 MIN: 3 / MAX: 245 MIN: 4 / MAX: 169 MIN: 4 / MAX: 166
OpenArena Resolution: 2560 x 1600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 2.13, N = 3 66.90 194.03 183.83
Compile Bench Test: Initial Create OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 2.87, N = 3 SE +/- 2.69, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 136.46 137.02 185.93
Compile Bench Test: Compile OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 3.64, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.83, N = 3 220.15 207.67 359.92
Dbench Client Count: 12 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.89, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 109.93 111.32 109.43 1. (CC) gcc options: -lpopt
FS-Mark Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size OpenBenchmarking.org Files/s, More Is Better FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 30.20 28.63 29.30 1. (CC) gcc options: -static
FS-Mark Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads OpenBenchmarking.org Files/s, More Is Better FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.48, N = 3 64.67 64.27 64.93 1. (CC) gcc options: -static
FS-Mark Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size OpenBenchmarking.org Files/s, More Is Better FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 29.60 28.47 29.80 1. (CC) gcc options: -static
SQLite Test Target: Default Test Directory OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 20160203 100 200 300 400 500 SE +/- 0.78, N = 3 SE +/- 0.82, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 459.03 333.39 330.64 -lcurses 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native -ldl -lpthread
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