ThinkPad X220: Benchmarking

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Basic Tests

For basic testing I installed the following packages.

# yaourt -S mesa-demos hdparm

dd (cpu)

Using dd in conjunction with any steam-processing CPU-intensive program to provide a simple CPU benchmark. It may not be very accurate though.

# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | md5sum


10+0 records in
10+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) copied, 20.3283 s, 528 MB/s
2dd26c4d4799ebd29fa31e48d49e8e53 -
IconCPU Temperature peaked around 64C during the test.

I then performed a rough 5 minute test.

# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=160 | md5sum


160+0 records in
160+0 records out
171798691840 bytes (172 GB, 160 GiB) copied, 324.407 s, 530 MB/s
8f75e24931ccd52edfc887601023073b -
IconCPU Temperature was a constant ~70C with peaks of 71-72C hitting as high as 74C near the end.

dd (ssd write)

# dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/tempfile bs=1M count=1024 conv=fdatasync,notrunc status=progress


1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 9.93576 s, 108 MB/s

glxgears (vsync)

# glxgears


Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.715 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.048 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.048 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.048 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.045 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.055 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS

hdparm (ssd read)

# sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda


/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 12822 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6414.67 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 790 MB in 3.00 seconds = 263.13 MB/sec

systemd-analyze (boot speed)

This plot is a detailed graphic of the boot sequence.

# systemd-analyze plot ~/boot.svg

ThinkPad X220 Boot Analysis.svg

Phoronix Test Suite

Description

System Information

# phoronix-test-suite system-info


Phoronix Test Suite v7.2.0
System Information



PROCESSOR
: Intel Core i7-2640M @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores)
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 4
Extensions: SSE 4.2 + AVX
Cache Size: 4096 KB
Microcode: 0x29
Scaling Driver: intel_pstate powersave

GRAPHICS: Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz)
Display Driver: intel 2.99.917
Screen: 1366x768

MOTHERBOARD: LENOVO 42901Z2
Memory: 8192MB
Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM
Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

DISK: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160
File-System: ext4
Mount Options: data=ordered relatime rw
Disk Scheduler: CFQ

OPERATING SYSTEM: Arch Linux
Kernel: 4.11.9-1-ARCH (x86_64)
Compiler: GCC 7.1.1 20170630 + Clang 4.0.1