Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 25 July 2013 at 01:02 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 43 Comments.
Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit vs. 64-bit / Linux 3.10 Kernel
Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit vs. 64-bit / Linux 3.10 Kernel

While there wasn't much change in the Linux gaming performance, as soon as moving to the computational workloads, 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10 was jumping ahead. There are very clear performance advantages to 64-bit Linux on this Lenovo ThinkPad laptop with Intel Core i7 processor.

Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit vs. 64-bit / Linux 3.10 Kernel
Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit vs. 64-bit / Linux 3.10 Kernel

FFTE and x264 also performed faster "out of the box" on 64-bit Ubuntu over the 32-bit build.

Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit vs. 64-bit / Linux 3.10 Kernel

The Linux kernel compilation time really doesn't change much.


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