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"
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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-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: 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
"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
"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: 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
"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,,
"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
"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
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1637,1648,1637,1685,1644,1619,1524,1428,1386,1530,1409,2788,4032
"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
"TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,909181,914011,906059,920418,921342,920728,920420,922267,922576,921959,781412,854162,871209
"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