Fedora 23 vs. OpenSUSE 42.1 Leap vs. Mint
Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.


Fedora 23: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.0-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0 (git-c4bae57) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: SUSE LINUX 42.1beta1, Kernel: 4.1.6-10-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Linux Mint 17.2: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.11, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Manjaro 15.09: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: ManjaroLinux 15.09, Kernel: 4.1.8-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.7 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 737 |================================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 689 |=============================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 554 |====================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 587 |======================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 81484 |==============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 44061 |=========================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 29905 |=================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 42053 |========================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 1107 |===============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 1077 |==============================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 909  |=======================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 1069 |=============================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 84953 |==============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 77379 |==========================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 57337 |===============================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 76190 |=========================================


Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ....... 80.22 |======================================================
Linux Mint 17.2 . 64.83 |============================================
Manjaro 15.09 ... 71.46 |================================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 127.22 |=============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 118.13 |==========================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 71.86  |=========================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 103.60 |=====================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultimate
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 79.77 |==============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 71.40 |=========================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 63.13 |====================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 65.53 |======================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 5357 |=============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 4088 |===================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 5319 |=============================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 5555 |===============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 13597 |============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 6822  |======================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 14015 |==============================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 14093 |==============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 20997667 |=========================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 11684833 |=======================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 21608333 |==========================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 21923000 |===========================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 53.71 |=============================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 85.20 |==============================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 52.88 |=============================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 55.75 |==============================


x264 2014-08-30
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 329.73 |===========================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 308.20 |========================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 343.60 |=============================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 331.62 |===========================================


FFmpeg 2.6.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 23.06 |==========================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 24.15 |============================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 25.03 |==============================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 24.03 |============================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: GET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 609542.33 |========================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 633521.02 |==========================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 620091.96 |=========================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 638932.04 |==========================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: SET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 556794.23 |========================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 580846.21 |==========================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 572411.32 |=========================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 576116.06 |==========================================


SQLite 3.8.10.2
Timed SQLite Insertions
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 368.22 |=============================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 548.46 |===========================================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 368.35 |=============================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 571.11 |=============================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 60.09 |============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 30.52 |======================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 61.70 |=============================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 63.02 |==============================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 2221.19 |===========================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 1577.40 |===============================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 2146.90 |==========================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 2264.04 |============================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 75.58 |==============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 39.05 |========================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 74.02 |=============================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 71.19 |===========================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Fedora 23 ............... 1237.21 |============================================
openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta . 667.17  |========================
Linux Mint 17.2 ......... 1213.61 |===========================================
Manjaro 15.09 ........... 1140.81 |=========================================