Performance of my new laptop

26 Jan 2013

Couple of days ago I got my new laptop (Dell M4700) to replace my old one. I was interested in how it performed compared to my old laptop, to make it more interesting I added my desktop (AMD) to the comparison as well.

My own Desktop

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: In Raid 0 = 250GB Seagate ST3250410AS + 250GB HDS722525VLSA80, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB

My old Laptop

Intel Core 2 Duo P8700, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB Intel SSD, Intel Mobile 4 IGP

My NEW Laptop

Intel Core i7-3840QM, Memory: 24GB, Disk: 120GB Intel SSD, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro K2000M

I am using Phoronix Test Suite for testing and i am running the “workstation”; suite.

The results:

Test	Hardware	Old laptop	NEW laptop
Apache Benchmark [system] more is better	25364.12	5968.28	33537.00
NGINX [system] more is better	30298.94	9993.08	33702.74
PostgreSQL [system] more is better	236.85	161	2749.01
PostMark [disk] more is better	3571	1621	5875
IOzone Write [disk] more is better	62.10	74.54	127.21
IOzone Read [disk] more is better	4309.98	257.97	8748.12
C-Ray [cpu] less is better	58.72	263.87	46.26
POV-Ray [cpu] less is better	959	1926	668
Crafty [cpu] less is better	96.06	210.88	74.83
PHPBench [system] more is better	67250	33087	98749
GraphicsMagick [cpu] more is better	142	54	197
OpenSSL [cpu] more is better	104.13	34.80	126.07
John The Ripper [cpu] more is better	5418	870	5805
MAFFT [cpu] less is better	7.69	36.25	5.82
Himeno [cpu] more is better	625.87	571.53
HMMer [cpu] less is better	14.34	66.91	10.83
LAME MP3 Enc less is better	19.47	24.76	13.31
FFmpeg [cpu] less is better	28.70	45.39	18.93
LZMA Compres [cpu] less is better	174.19	307.11	145.62
BZIP2 Compres [cpu] less is better	10.72	47.46	8.09
NAS EP.B [cpu] more is better	152.25	31.41	273.36

My new lap seems to perform very well :)