I’ve been working with a Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation, running Solaris 10 and Windows XP, over the past couple of weeks. While I’m going to write up my impressions of the Sun Ultra 20 M2 sometime soon, I thought I’d share some of the performance results I’ve collected on the Ultra 20 M2, especially now that Geekbench runs on Solaris.

Setup

Here’s the configuration of the Sun Ultra 20 M2:

  • AMD Dual-Core Opteron 1210
  • 512 MB DDR2-667 (1 DIMM)
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or
  • Solaris 10 (6/06 Update)
  • Geekbench 2006 (build 230)

I’m reporting the baseline score, rather than the raw score, for each benchmark (where a score of 100 is the score a Power Mac G5 1.6GHz would receive). Higher is better.

Overall Score

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
170.5
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)

147.6

Integer Performance

Emulate 6502 (single-threaded scalar)

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
87.3
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)
76.8

Emulate 6502 (multi-threaded scalar)

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
174.8
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)
153.7

Blowfish (single-threaded scalar)

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
155.5
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)
118.6

Blowfish (multi-threaded scalar)

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
310.7
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)
237.3

bzip2 Compress (single-threaded scalar)

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
216.7
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)
180.6

bzip2 Compress (multi-threaded scalar)

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
425.3
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)
364.3

bzip2 Decompress (single-threaded scalar)

Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Solaris)
140.8
Sun Ultra 20 M2 (Windows XP)
154.9