Fedora 23 vs. 22 vs. 21 Linux x86-64 Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Fedora 21: 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: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, 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: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150212, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Fedora 22: 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: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.2, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 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: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 802.76 |========================================================== Fedora 22 . 812.74 |=========================================================== Fedora 23 . 803.84 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 209.51 |=========================================================== Fedora 22 . 203.86 |========================================================= Fedora 23 . 201.64 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 1961.05 |========================================================= Fedora 22 . 1977.29 |========================================================= Fedora 23 . 1997.31 |========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 55.40 |===================================================== Fedora 22 . 63.17 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 63.17 |============================================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . MIN: 9.0 AVG: 17.6 MAX: 35.0 Fedora 22 . MIN: 8.0 AVG: 15.4 MAX: 24.0 Fedora 23 . MIN: 6.0 AVG: 15.5 MAX: 27.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 78.36 |========================================================== Fedora 22 . 81.01 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 80.80 |============================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 110.57 |================================================= Fedora 22 . 131.86 |=========================================================== Fedora 23 . 128.44 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 93.34 |==================================================== Fedora 22 . 106.62 |=========================================================== Fedora 23 . 104.24 |========================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 20449 |=================================================== Fedora 22 . 24193 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 24204 |============================================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 550 |============================================== Fedora 22 . 734 |============================================================== Fedora 23 . 734 |============================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 48419 |==================================== Fedora 22 . 80245 |=========================================================== Fedora 23 . 81283 |============================================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 58846 |================================================= Fedora 22 . 72280 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 72464 |============================================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 59044 |=========================================== Fedora 22 . 82378 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 74149 |====================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 7.85 |=========================== Fedora 22 . 17.64 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 16.45 |======================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 97.43 |============================================================ Fedora 22 . 83.76 |=================================================== Fedora 23 . 97.96 |============================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 102.54 |================================ Fedora 22 . 189.34 |=========================================================== Fedora 23 . 98.90 |=============================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 67.32 |================= Fedora 22 . 238.72 |=========================================================== Fedora 23 . 36.13 |========= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 14.67 |============================================================ Fedora 22 . 8.95 |===================================== Fedora 23 . 9.17 |====================================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 314.65 |======================================================== Fedora 22 . 306.84 |======================================================= Fedora 23 . 329.71 |=========================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 1874.67 |========================================================== Fedora 22 . 1870.63 |========================================================== Fedora 23 . 1872.36 |========================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 61.56 |====================================== Fedora 22 . 96.31 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 53.85 |================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 12.55 |============================================================ Fedora 22 . 11.93 |========================================================= Fedora 23 . 11.12 |===================================================== FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 21 . 24.06 |============================================================ Fedora 22 . 23.88 |============================================================ Fedora 23 . 23.86 |============================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 1275.03 |========================================================== Fedora 22 . 1113.23 |=================================================== Fedora 23 . 1266.43 |========================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 1216.13 |========================================================== Fedora 22 . 1194.89 |========================================================= Fedora 23 . 1199.61 |========================================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 606080.40 |======================================================= Fedora 22 . 614035.85 |======================================================== Fedora 23 . 606988.54 |======================================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 555561.15 |======================================================== Fedora 22 . 553200.06 |======================================================== Fedora 23 . 551804.43 |======================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 21 . 12559.43 |======================================================== Fedora 22 . 12803.93 |========================================================= Fedora 23 . 11720.66 |====================================================