Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS Comparison Intel Xeon E3-1231 tests on various Linux distributions. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 15.10: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Fedora 23: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.1.0 (git-525f3c2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 CentOS 7 1511: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.4.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.6.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 24.41 |========================================== Ubuntu 15.10 .. 24.63 |========================================== Fedora 23 ..... 25.50 |============================================ CentOS 7 1511 . 32.46 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 810.78 |======================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 696.87 |=============================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 717.95 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 408.83 |======================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 268.79 |==================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 199.34 |=========================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 6881 |========================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 6410 |===================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 6151 |=================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 14727.13 |===================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 14344.90 |=================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 14840.52 |===================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 2679.08 |====================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 2683.51 |====================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 2645.23 |===================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 283.37 |===================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 296.05 |======================================================= CentOS 7 1511 . 260.51 |================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 8120.30 |====================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 8027.17 |===================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 8062.79 |====================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 244.31 |======================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 235.84 |===================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 244.39 |======================================================= Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 22.50 |======================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 22.73 |======================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 21.50 |===================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 9.91 |========================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 9.66 |======================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 9.92 |========================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 4.69 |====================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 4.68 |====================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 4.92 |========================================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 185.39 |======================================================= Fedora 23 .... 187.27 |======================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 1957.41 |====================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 1807.15 |================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 1755.58 |================================================ Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 28.17 |======================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 26.09 |==================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 25.14 |================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 113.64 |======================================================= Ubuntu 15.10 .. 113.80 |======================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 106.34 |=================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 103.02 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 23.50 |======================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 .. 23.51 |======================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 23.54 |======================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 23.60 |======================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 9.41 |======================================================= Fedora 23 ..... 9.47 |======================================================= CentOS 7 1511 . 9.74 |========================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 77 |====================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 76 |===================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 84 |=========================================================== PBZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.46 |========================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.39 |========================================================= Fedora 23 .... 9.50 |========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 6.06 |=============================================== Fedora 23 ..... 6.14 |================================================ CentOS 7 1511 . 7.32 |========================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 11.73 |=================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 11.80 |=================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 12.98 |======================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.91 |========================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 . 9.96 |========================================================== Fedora 23 .... 9.84 |========================================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 73.28 |================================================= Fedora 23 .... 86.11 |========================================================= GnuPG Linux 4.3 Package File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 14.28 |== Ubuntu 15.10 .. 14.25 |== Fedora 23 ..... 15.26 |== CentOS 7 1511 . 483.37 |======================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 . 597.50 |======================================================== Fedora 23 .... 595.50 |======================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 0.04 | Fedora 23 ..... 1177.53 |====================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 1060.53 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 2992.59 |====================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 2564.02 |============================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 1806.26 |================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 6830.45 |===================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 6946.76 |====================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 4781.27 |===================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 7515.36 |==================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 7813.28 |====================================================== CentOS 7 1511 . 6262.57 |=========================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 2282625.67 |================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 2077648.42 |============================================= CentOS 7 1511 . 2332405.83 |=================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 1668520.91 |================================================== Ubuntu 15.10 .. 1706687.96 |=================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 1596901.71 |================================================ CentOS 7 1511 . 1633045.81 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 .. 37189.48 |===================================================== Fedora 23 ..... 22865.71 |================================= CentOS 7 1511 . 20153.06 |============================= OpenSSL 1.0.2e-fips RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 . 665.13 |=========================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7 1511 . 593.17 |======================================================= CentOS 7 1511 . 592.73 |=======================================================