Fedora 21 Updates Test
Fedora 21 Linux benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Fedora 21 Stock: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6144MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Fedora 21 20150109: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6144MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.7-300.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.16.2.901 (1.16.3 RC 1), Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 101.77 |==================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 101.70 |==================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... MIN: 4.0  AVG: 9.6   MAX: 32.0 
Fedora 21 20150109 . MIN: 4.0  AVG: 9.6   MAX: 33.0 


Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 80.64 |===================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 80.59 |===================================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 259.50 |==================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 260.30 |==================================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 106.47 |==================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 106.96 |==================================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 94.23 |===================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 93.96 |===================================================


x264 2014-08-30
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 315.04 |==================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 311.29 |=================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 60.11 |===================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 60.34 |===================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 11.81 |================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 12.68 |===================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 3.83 |================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 4.17 |====================================================


Primesieve 5.4
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 38.78 |===================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 38.38 |==================================================


Stockfish 2014-11-26
Total Time
ms < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 3703 |====================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 3700 |====================================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 6.98 |====================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 6.98 |====================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 12.42 |===================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 12.46 |===================================================


FFmpeg 2.1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 21 Stock .... 22.57 |===================================================
Fedora 21 20150109 . 22.78 |===================================================