Debian 7.11 vs. 8.8 vs. 9.0 Benchmarks Tests for a future article on Phoronix. Debian 7.11: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 7.11, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian 8.8: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 8.8, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian 9.0: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 9.0, Kernel: 4.9.0-3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . 46.86 |========================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 38.59 |================================================ Debian 9.0 .. 38.25 |=============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 155.23 |====================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 155.77 |======================================================= Debian 9.0 .. 162.53 |========================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 294.03 |======================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 290.97 |======================================================= Debian 9.0 .. 301.17 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 407.62 |====================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 430.48 |========================================================= Debian 9.0 .. 428.62 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 272.53 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 292.47 |========================================================= Debian 9.0 .. 282.67 |======================================================= ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 53.03 |======================================================= Debian 9.0 . 56.93 |=========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 41.27 |======================================== Debian 8.8 .. 60.20 |========================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 60.20 |========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 24.1 MAX: 37.0 Debian 8.8 .. MIN: 3.0 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 31.0 Debian 9.0 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 24.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 37.47 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 . 40.67 |=========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 61.33 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 . 60.18 |========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 60.13 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 . 60.04 |=========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 53.58 |========================================================= Debian 9.0 . 55.33 |=========================================================== GLmark2 276 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Score > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 296 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 . 334 |============================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 3612 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 . 3685 |============================================================ CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 3.04 |=========================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 3.04 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 3.03 |=========================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . 14.56 |========================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 14.33 |========================================================= Debian 9.0 .. 14.21 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 1100.28 |======================================================= Debian 8.8 .. 1126.20 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 1120.27 |======================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 3233 |=========================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 3182 |========================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 3192 |========================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 102.99 |============================================== Debian 8.8 .. 126.69 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 128.75 |========================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 127 |================================================ Debian 8.8 .. 158 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 160 |============================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 1551.81 |======================================================= Debian 8.8 .. 1573.48 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 1580.87 |======================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . 39.63 |========================================================= Debian 8.8 .. 40.03 |========================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 17.12 |========================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . 190.78 |================================================ Debian 8.8 .. 202.31 |=================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 224.93 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . 39.90 |========================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 35.29 |=================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 35.60 |==================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . 14.61 |========================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 14.08 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 14.15 |======================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 424.20 |========================================================= Debian 8.8 .. 421.43 |========================================================= Debian 9.0 .. 422.20 |========================================================= libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 119.38 |======================================================= Debian 8.8 .. 121.71 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 124.60 |========================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 3116.86 |============================================ Debian 8.8 .. 3995.25 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 3923.13 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 5753.98 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 6130.99 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 5824.45 |===================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 2098259.46 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 1988595.62 |================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 1995022.04 |================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 1517295.29 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .. 1446828.63 |=================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 1463535.75 |===================================================