Krushna,
I believe following options can be used for benchmarking/comparison purpose.
Sysbench offers quick set to benchmark system performance. Whereas netperf gives us network performance.
sysbench - file IO, memory performance
Wiki - http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/
Example page - http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-benchmark-your-system-cpu-file-io-mysql-with-sysbench
netperf - network performance test
Wiki - http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/tags/netperf-2.6.0/doc/netperf.html
Example page - http://www.netperf.org/netperf/training/Netperf.html#0.2.2Z141Z1.SUJSTF.AR2DBD.71
Let me know your thoughts.
Regards,
Priyank