现在有不少开源的跨平台软件存在,使得Linux和Windows下的软件性能有了可比性,Mohammed Saleh做了一个Ubuntu 8.04和Windows XP SP3下的软件性能对比。
测试的主要是多媒体性能和硬盘性能,前者主要是Blender、Avidemux等软件的性能测试,后者主要是采用命令行下的RAR和 ClamAV,结果显示,XP在多媒体方面大幅超越Ubuntu,而Ubuntu在IO相关程序方面更有优势——尽管测试的时候Ubuntu是ATA硬盘 而XP在SATA硬盘上。

测试平台:

CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+
主板:MSI K9N Neo V3 nForce560
内存:2GB 双通道DDR2-6400 (800)
硬盘(Windows XP):WD 160GB SATA150
硬盘 (Ubuntu 8.04):Maxtor 160GB ATA133
显卡 GeForce 8600GT
两个操作系统都打上了最新的补丁.

另外他还写了一个脚本对比两者的多任务性能,结果Ubuntu大幅领先XP。

Test technical details:

• ClamAV:
  • Engine version: 0.92.1
  • Known viruses: 288170
  • Single Task:
    • Scanned directories: 1035
    • Scanned files: 16297
    • Data scanned: 3708.96 MB
  • Multi-Task:
    • Scanned directories: 15
    • Scanned files: 171
    • Data scanned: 1387.55 MB
• Avidemux 2.4.1
  • Test1: Converting 03:17 DV (MPEG2) clip to MP4 (x264 (2-pass, 1024kbps) /AAC)
  • Test2: Converting 05:32 MJPEG clip to MP4 (x264 (2-pass, 1024kbps) /AAC)
• LAME 3.97
  • Encoding Test: 44:58 495MB WAV to VBR MP3
    • lame -V 0 -m j -q 0 -s 48 –vbr-new 1.wav 1.mp3
  • Decoding Test: 44:58 72MB MP3 256Kbps VBR to WAV
    • lame –decode b.mp3 decode.wav
  • Transcoding Test: 44:58 72MB MP3 256Kbps VBR to standard MP3
    • lame -h b.mp3 b2.mp3
• RAR 3.71
  • Compression: RAR 1,516 items, totaling 565.2 MB
  • Decompression: UnRAR 481.7 MB archive
• Blender 2.45:
  • Single Task: Rendering 25 frames of each one of sample files:
    • dolphin.blend
    • group-duplicate.blend
    • FPSTemplateLightMap.blend
  • Multi Task: Rendering 25 frames of sample file FPSTemplateLightMap.blend
• GIMP 2.4.5:
  • Source Image: 2816×2112 JPEG image.
  • Single Task: Applying these filters with the default settings:
    • Filters>render>nature>IFS Fractal
    • Filters>render>Line Nova
    • Filters>render>Spyrogimp
  • Multi-Task: Applying this filter with the default settings:
    • Filters>render>nature>IFS Fractal
• Misc:
  • Tests were run on fresh installs of Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP SP2 with SP3 on top with only latest updates, media codecs, hardware drivers and test programs installed.
  • Desktop effects on both Windows XP and Ubuntu were ON.
  • nVIDIA-supplied VGA drivers on both (v175.16 for Windows XP and v169.12 on Ubuntu)
  • Disabled Paging/Swapping on both Windows and Linux to limit disk IO effect on CPU/RAM tests (RAR compression, GIMP, Blender, MP3 Encoding)
  • Data=Writeback Journaling on the EXT3 hard drive.
  • Disabled NTFS last-access time stamp on the NTFS hard drive.
  • All test read/wrote from/to the same hard disk partition: EXT3 for Linux and NTFS for Windows
  • Each test was repeated 3 times and the avera

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