Phoronix posted an article comparing Intel and AMD desktops on the Linux 4.18 kernel. The article says 100+ benchmarks were measured, though only half a dozen are displayed as part of the article. I haven’t done these benchmarks on 4.18, … Continue reading →
Phoronix posted an article comparing POWER vs x86 on CPU benchmarks. This post looks at some of the workloads and adds comments.
Continue reading →Phoronix posted an article comparing hyperthreading on/off on an Intel i7. This post reviews some of the workloads and add comments.
Continue reading →Phoronix posted an article comparing 28 desktop CPUs. This post reviews some of the workloads that were used.
Continue reading →Phoronix posted an article comparing 15 different OS versions. This posting doesn’t reproduce the measurements, but instead looks at overall summaries made as well as looks at the benchmarks being used for comparisons.
Continue reading →Phoronix posted an article comparing OpenSuSE leap 15, leap 42.3 and tumbleweed. I don’t have these operating systems on my benchmark system, but make the following notes about what the benchmarks are measuring.
Continue reading →Phoronix posted an article comparing compilers on threadripper. The comparison uses gcc7/gcc8/llvm5/llvm6/llvm7 and AMD AOCC. All benchmarks were compiled with -O3 -march=native.
Continue reading →Phoronix posted an article measuring Spectre V4 changes. These tests happen with kernel patches for the Spectre 3a (rogue system register read) and Spectre 4 (speculative store bypass) fixes are applied to the kernel. There is an AMD whitepaper describing … Continue reading →
Phoronix posted an article comparing performance for newest release of Dragonfly BSD. The comparison made is between the old release (5.2) and the new release under development (5.3). Overall, performance looks improved from new to older release. Unclear how this … Continue reading →
Phoronix posted an article benchmarking the newest AMD AOCC compiler. The article compares performance with gcc 7, gcc 8 and llvm 6. This article goes through some of the benchmarks to understand what is measured. Overall, not sure the benchmarks … Continue reading →