Ubuntu 12.10 Is Faster With Intel Hardware

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 14 August 2012 at 09:43 AM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 11 Comments.
CompuLab - Intel Ivy Bridge - Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Ubuntu 12.10
CompuLab - Intel Ivy Bridge - Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Ubuntu 12.10
CompuLab - Intel Ivy Bridge - Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Ubuntu 12.10

TTSIOD, VP8 video encoding, and C-Ray all experienced performance boosts as well out of Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit Linux. The C-Ray boost is rather dramatic and is something we've seen out of GCC 4.7 building the multi-threaded ray-tracer extremely well.

CompuLab - Intel Ivy Bridge - Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Ubuntu 12.10

Smallpt is also slightly faster under the "Quantal Quetzal" operating system.


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