7-Way Linux Laptop Comparison From Sandy Bridge To Broadwell

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 14 December 2015 at 10:00 AM EST. Page 2 of 8. 10 Comments.
Linux 2015 Laptop Comparison

For a quick disk benchmark was the SQLite test considering how many common Linux desktop applications rely upon SQLite. To no surprise, all of the laptops/ultrabooks using solid-state storage were much faster than the two Broadwell laptops still relying upon rotating HDDs.

Linux 2015 Laptop Comparison
Linux 2015 Laptop Comparison

Moving onto graphics tests, the higher-end Core i7 Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors were competing with the lower-end Core i5 5200U Broadwell system. All tests were done at 1366 x 768 as being the lowest common resolution supported across all the hardware.

Linux 2015 Laptop Comparison

SuperTuxKart results were similar to the OpenArena data points.


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