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.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1610234-PTS-1610219L89
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"
"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
"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
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1637,1648,1637,1685,1644,1619,1524,1428,1386,1530,1409,2788,4032
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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: 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
"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
"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: 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
"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
"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
"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,,
"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
"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