Intel Linux 3.3 To Linux 3.13 then Linux 4.8/4.8 Kernel Benchmarks

Linux 3.3 to Linux 3.13 kernel benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com then now in 2016 tested with Ubuntu 16.10 plus Linux 4.9 kernel. Fun retrospective.

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Linux 3.3
January 29 2014
 
Linux 3.4
January 29 2014
 
Linux 3.5
January 28 2014
 
Linux 3.6
January 28 2014
 
Linux 3.7
January 28 2014
 
Linux 3.8
January 28 2014
 
Linux 3.9
January 28 2014
 
Linux 3.10
January 27 2014
 
Linux 3.11
January 27 2014
 
Linux 3.12
January 27 2014
 
Linux 3.13
January 27 2014
 
Ubuntu 16.10 Linux 4.8
October 21 2016
 
Ubuntu 16.10 Linux 4.9
October 21 2016
 
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Intel Linux 3.3 To Linux 3.13 then Linux 4.8/4.8 Kernel Benchmarks Linux 3.3 to Linux 3.13 kernel benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com then now in 2016 tested with Ubuntu 16.10 plus Linux 4.9 kernel. Fun retrospective. ,,"Linux 3.3","Linux 3.4","Linux 3.5","Linux 3.6","Linux 3.7","Linux 3.8","Linux 3.9","Linux 3.10","Linux 3.11","Linux 3.12","Linux 3.13","Ubuntu 16.10 Linux 4.8","Ubuntu 16.10 Linux 4.9" 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),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,HP 161C,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,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,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,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB Disk,,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 Graphics,,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,Intel HD 3000,Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz),Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP Audio,,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,IDT 92HD81B1X5,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,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,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,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS,,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 16.10,Ubuntu 16.10 Kernel,,3.3.0-030300-generic (x86_64),3.4.0-030400-generic (x86_64),3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64),3.6.0-030600-generic (x86_64),3.7.0-030700-generic (x86_64),3.8.0-030800-generic (x86_64),3.9.0-030900-generic (x86_64),3.10.0-031000-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-031100-generic (x86_64),3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-031300-generic (x86_64),4.8.0-22-generic (x86_64),4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161020 Desktop,,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.5.0,Unity 7.5.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.18.4,X Server 1.18.4 Display Driver,,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,intel 2.99.907,modesetting 1.18.4,modesetting 1.18.4 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4,3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-07149f0 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga),3.3 Mesa 12.0.3,3.3 Mesa 12.0.3 Compiler,,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 6.2.0 20161005,GCC 6.2.0 20161005 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900,1600x900 ,,"Linux 3.3","Linux 3.4","Linux 3.5","Linux 3.6","Linux 3.7","Linux 3.8","Linux 3.9","Linux 3.10","Linux 3.11","Linux 3.12","Linux 3.13","Ubuntu 16.10 Linux 4.8","Ubuntu 16.10 Linux 4.9" "OpenArena - Resolution: 1600 x 900 (FPS)",HIB,,,,27.30,27.33,27.33,27.43,27.33,27.40,27.40,27.33,26.60,27.10 "Unigine Sanctuary - Resolution: 1024 x 768 (FPS)",HIB,,,,2.74,2.69,2.65,2.75,2.79,2.73,2.75,2.75,15.51,15.62 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,,,,91.40,91.59,91.64,94.03,93.28,93.44,93.72,93.90,91.24,96.15 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,,,,48.69,48.87,48.90,49.40,49.35,49.37,49.27,49.31,46.97,47.98 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Ptrans (GB/s)",HIB,0.37226,0.36738,0.37476,0.36835,0.36655,0.37046,0.37024,0.36755,0.36669,0.36681,0.39936,0.36120,0.36189 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad (GB/s)",HIB,1.91326,1.82648,1.85094,2.01190,1.80922,1.77692,1.80114,1.87469,1.83853,1.96953,3.14201,3.60799,1.88799 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth (GB/s)",HIB,0.76677,0.76847,0.78239,0.76691,0.76805,0.76348,0.76400,0.76495,0.76371,0.76887,0.76856,0.78758,0.81029 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-HPL (GFLOPS)",HIB,16.86447,16.83193,16.89897,16.89153,14.76670,16.84943,16.91637,16.82943,16.81867,16.87890,16.82127,14.83573,16.40487 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Ffte (GFLOPS)",HIB,1.41432,1.41559,1.43874,1.41145,1.41259,1.41601,1.40779,1.40943,1.39361,1.39475,1.35914,1.44437,1.45107 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: EP-DGEMM (GFLOPS)",HIB,4.57413,4.57506,4.57913,4.57446,4.09877,4.56999,4.57681,4.57247,4.57203,4.57484,4.55708,4.18174,4.56809 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: G-Random Access (GUP/s)",HIB,0.02019,0.02003,0.02035,0.02044,0.02006,0.01985,0.01781,0.01715,0.02006,0.02010,0.02521,0.00643,0.00825 "Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,209.16,211.15,210.42,209.88,432.02,193.16,184.84,316.59,291.94,349.05,345.47,311.78,274.26 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,105.49,106.04,105.91,106.99,107.25,106.03,105.65,108.63,106.10,105.63,107.75,112.39,117.53 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,93.42,96.36,97.72,104.08,100.73,101.49,98.20,95.13,98.62,94.78,92.32,105.35,112.72 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth (MB/s)",HIB,4756.541,4676.835,4744.799,4675.720,4555.803,4623.472,4617.706,4606.189,4610.011,4635.295,4622.673,4347.153,4449.465 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1285.93,1289.82,1292.16,1291.80,1290.87,1290.34,1292.85,1293.17,1291.16,1295.39,1091.93,1246.17,1287.10 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,909181,914011,906059,920418,921342,920728,920420,922267,922576,921959,781412,854162,871209 "Hierarchical INTegration - Test: FLOAT (QUIPs)",HIB,256549866.52,256863781.01,254643172.98,257621036.78,257485642.98,256953351.09,257448930.45,257015556.14,257145686.34,258105597.56,204750569.74,256909840.66,261683201.29 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,19372.45,19829.62,19867.65,18676.07,18039.02,17907.21,17489.16,16039.66,16293.98,18751.24,15877.41,16386.47,18568.72 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1637,1648,1637,1685,1644,1619,1524,1428,1386,1530,1409,2788,4032 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,,,,36.48,36.44,36.49,36.28,36.46,36.47,36.39,36.47,, "OpenArena - Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,,,,,,,,,,,,37.5,36.76 "PolyBench-C - Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications (sec)",LIB,33.35,32.99,32.36,33.33,33.06,32.83,32.84,33.65,33.02,31.62,30.05,30.56,29.80 "Timed MrBayes Analysis - Primate Phylogeny Analysis (sec)",LIB,25.42,25.44,25.34,25.14,25.52,25.30,25.23,25.68,25.66,25.30,26.12,42.51,37.19 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,70.22,69.99,70.30,69.79,70.82,69.73,69.75,69.77,69.78,69.73,69.81,75.20,70.21 "Open Porous Media - OPM Benchmark: Upscale-Relperm (sec)",LIB,132.66,132.51,131.66,132.95,134.29,133.12,132.63,130.77,134.59,133.72,133.09,, "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,7.45,7.45,7.44,7.35,7.36,7.34,7.38,7.35,7.39,7.37,9.27,5.67,5.38 "HPC Challenge - Test / Class: Random Ring Latency (usecs)",LIB,0.55916,0.55286,0.56350,0.55530,0.61911,0.57234,0.55730,0.57061,0.57507,0.55178,0.55938,1.00173,0.47972