So back in 2006, I bought a 64 bit laptop and never used a 64 bit operating system. What a waste, since it never took advantage of it. I pretty much was an early adapter of consumer 64 bit processors – so early that no OSes or drivers were out yet. Today, my computer is a huge pile of crap. I was bored and testing some weird, unexplainable issues that make no sense (that’s a whole other post) and decided that I wanted to see how much better the The following benchmarks were performed using Everest which is a Windows program (I got it running in Wine on Ubuntu)
Benchmark results (higher is better, except for the latency test):
| Test Type |
Windows XP 32bit |
Ubuntu 9.04 x64 |
| Memory Read |
2291 MB/s |
6547 MB/s |
| Memory Write |
1843 MB/s |
2670 MB/s |
| Memory Copy |
2006 MB/s |
2244 MB/s |
| Memory Latency |
64.9 ns |
50.4 ns |
| CPU Queen |
3786 |
3808 |
| CPU PhotoWorxx |
2679 |
2921 |
| CPU ZLib |
12838 KB/s |
12855 KB/s |
| CPU AES |
2810 |
2836 |
As you can see, the laptop’s RAM benched significantly better on the 64 bit OS. The other tests were very similar, but were also slightly better. Everest does have a 64 bit driver, so that’s probably why.
My Laptop Benchmark: Win XP 32bit VS Ubuntu 9.04 x64
July 12, 2009
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So back in 2006, I bought a 64 bit laptop and never used a 64 bit operating system. What a waste, since it never took advantage of it. I pretty much was an early adapter of consumer 64 bit processors – so early that no OSes or drivers were out yet. Today, my computer is a huge pile of crap. I was bored and testing some weird, unexplainable issues that make no sense (that’s a whole other post) and decided that I wanted to see how much better the The following benchmarks were performed using Everest which is a Windows program (I got it running in Wine on Ubuntu)
Benchmark results (higher is better, except for the latency test):
As you can see, the laptop’s RAM benched significantly better on the 64 bit OS. The other tests were very similar, but were also slightly better. Everest does have a 64 bit driver, so that’s probably why.