Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS Linux 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 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550, Audio: Intel 8 /C220, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-43-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 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 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 24.51 |======================================= 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 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 394.86 |======================== 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 |======================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 369.24 |============================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 6881 |==================================================== Fedora 23 .......... 6410 |================================================ CentOS 7 1511 ...... 6151 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 6522 |================================================= 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 14929.67 |================================================ 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 2669.60 |================================================= 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 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 259.01 |============================================ 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 8198.90 |================================================= 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 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 21.64 |================================================= 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 |==================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 9.87 |==================================================== 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 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 5.00 |==================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 185.39 |================================================= Fedora 23 .......... 187.27 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 185.47 |================================================== 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 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 1726.65 |=========================================== 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 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 26.90 |================================================= 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 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 108.88 |================================================ 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 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 23.61 |=================================================== 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 |==================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 9.29 |================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 77 |================================================== Fedora 23 .......... 76 |================================================= CentOS 7 1511 ...... 84 |====================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 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 |==================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 7.26 |==================================================== 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 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 12.79 |================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 73.28 |=========================================== Fedora 23 .......... 86.11 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 73.57 |============================================ 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 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 14.03 |= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 597.50 |================================================== Fedora 23 .......... 595.50 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 600.27 |================================================== 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 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 2058.16 |================================================= 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 |============================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 2540.62 |========================================== 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 |================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 5369.55 |====================================== 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 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 5825.41 |===================================== 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 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 2349485.63 |============================================== 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 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 1825584.37 |============================================== 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 |====================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 44428.37 |================================================