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Intel Core i5-4210U testing with a LENOVO Cherry 4A (7CCN60WW BIOS) and Intel Haswell Mobile 2GB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


T480 hw.smt=0: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 0.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkPad T480, Memory: 7936MB, Disk: 60GB

	OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 20070719 + Clang 6.0.0, File-System: ffs

test2: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 0.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkPad T480, Memory: 7936MB, Disk: 60GB

	OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 20070719 + Clang 6.0.0, File-System: ffs

T480 hw.smt=1: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 0.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkPad T480, Memory: 7936MB, Disk: 60GB

	OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 20070719 + Clang 6.0.0, File-System: ffs

test8: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: HP 83B2 (Q78 Ver. 01.04.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1, Graphics: Intel UHD 620 3GB (1100MHz), Audio: Conexant CX8200, Monitor: Acer CB271HK, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275

	OS: ManjaroLinux 18.0.3, Kernel: 4.20.11-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.15.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.3, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20181127, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160

Ideapad u480: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-4210U @ 2.70GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO Cherry 4A (7CCN60WW BIOS), Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel Haswell Mobile 2GB (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel 7260

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.12.8, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.2, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 1262 |================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 1240 |================
test8 ......... 4438 |=========================================================
Ideapad u480 .. 3617 |==============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 1841 |=======================================================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 1915 |=========================================================
test8 ......... 1910 |=========================================================
Ideapad u480 .. 1415 |==========================================


dcraw
RAW To PPM Image Conversion
Seconds < Lower Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 56.19 |=============================================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 54.95 |============================================
test8 ......... 48.50 |=======================================
Ideapad u480 .. 69.37 |========================================================


Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6
WAV To APE
Seconds < Lower Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 4.76 |=========================================================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 4.70 |========================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 31.21 |=====================================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 30.75 |=====================================
test8 ......... 35.35 |==========================================
Ideapad u480 .. 47.03 |========================================================


FFmpeg 3.4.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 7.04  |=======================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 6.77  |======================
test8 ......... 9.02  |==============================
Ideapad u480 .. 16.94 |========================================================


OpenSSL 1.1.0f
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 639 |==================================================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 653 |===================================================
test8 ......... 748 |==========================================================
Ideapad u480 .. 218 |=================


PyBench 2018-02-16
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
T480 hw.smt=0 . 5450 |=========================================================
T480 hw.smt=1 . 5468 |=========================================================
test8 ......... 1376 |==============
Ideapad u480 .. 1759 |==================