Performance test comparison between Ubuntu8.04 and Ubuntu7.10 (group chart)

Ubuntu8.04 has recently entered the freeze stage, and the final work will be completed. Ubuntu8.04RC will be released next week, preparing for the official version to be released by the end of this month. In addition to the new features, how much is the performance difference between Ubuntu8.04 and Ubuntu7.10? Phoronix recently compared them. Upgrade Ubuntu7.10 and Ubuntu8.04 to the latest version on January 10, April 3.

Ubuntu 8.04 has recently entered the freeze stage, and the final work will be completed. Next week, Ubuntu 8.04 RC will be released, preparing for the official version to be released by the end of this month.

In addition to the new features, what is the performance difference between Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 7.10? Phoronix recently compared them. Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 to the latest version in April 3 to test the Bootchart, Doom 3, LAME encoding, hard disk reading, Gzip compression, and memory speed, if you are interested, see.

Figure: Ubuntu 8.04 Operating System

The test is performed on a ThinkPad T60. The main hardware information is: Intel T2300 processor (1.83 GHz), 1 GB DDR2 memory, 80 gb sata hdd hard drive, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB graphics card, the driving catalyst is 8.3.

Main software of Ubuntu 8.04 includes: Linux kernel 2.6.24, GCC 4.2.3, GNOME 2.22, and X. Org Server 1.4.1. The main software of Ubuntu 7.10 is Linux kernel 2.6.22, GCC 4.1.3, GNOME 2.20, and X. Org 7.2.

Figure: Start Time Comparison

Figure: Doom 3 800x600 comparison of frames in high resolution and quality

Figure: Comparison of frames in Doom 3 1280*1024 resolution and low Image Quality

Figure: LAME encoding test comparison

Figure: disk read/write time comparison