Fedora 18 To Fedora 23 Linux Performance Fedora Linux benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Fedora 18: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5800 1024MB (800/1000MHz), Audio: AMD ATI Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 18, Kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 19: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD ATI Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 19, Kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 20: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 20, Kernel: 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.10.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 21: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster 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: 2560x1600 Fedora 22: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 23: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 23 + Updates: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0 (git-525f3c2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 466.83 |================================================= Fedora 19 ........... 468.26 |================================================= Fedora 20 ........... 332.19 |=================================== Fedora 21 ........... 337.50 |=================================== Fedora 22 ........... 331.03 |=================================== Fedora 23 ........... 331.84 |=================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 319.47 |================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 29.97 |================================================== Fedora 20 ........... 29.40 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 29.40 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 29.00 |================================================ Fedora 23 ........... 29.13 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 29.53 |================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 64.00 |================================================ Fedora 20 ........... 64.00 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 64.80 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 64.80 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 65.07 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 66.13 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 29.27 |================================================== Fedora 20 ........... 29.37 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 28.33 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 29.07 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 29.20 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 29.20 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 114.25 |======================================== Fedora 19 ........... 122.39 |=========================================== Fedora 20 ........... 138.54 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 138.02 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 134.62 |=============================================== Fedora 23 ........... 132.49 |============================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 140.77 |================================================= Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 56.04 |=============================================== Fedora 19 ........... 58.35 |================================================= Fedora 20 ........... 58.01 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 57.95 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 59.61 |================================================== Fedora 23 ........... 59.38 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 59.28 |================================================== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Stock - Size: 2D FFT Size 2048 Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 2037.66 |================================================ Fedora 19 ........... 1888.62 |============================================ Fedora 20 ........... 1922.25 |============================================= Fedora 21 ........... 1855.82 |============================================ Fedora 22 ........... 1902.92 |============================================= Fedora 23 ........... 1955.82 |============================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 1987.36 |=============================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 14.62 |=========================================== Fedora 19 ........... 16.87 |================================================== Fedora 20 ........... 14.55 |=========================================== Fedora 21 ........... 16.37 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 15.28 |============================================= Fedora 23 ........... 15.28 |============================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 15.20 |============================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 5939 |================================================== Fedora 19 ........... 4578 |======================================= Fedora 20 ........... 5967 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 4953 |========================================== Fedora 22 ........... 6053 |=================================================== Fedora 23 ........... 6064 |=================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 6053 |=================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 109.54 |================================================ Fedora 19 ........... 112.76 |================================================= Fedora 20 ........... 111.40 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 111.00 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 111.87 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 111.56 |================================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 108.95 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 508.25 |================================================ Fedora 19 ........... 490.74 |============================================== Fedora 20 ........... 511.96 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 509.33 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 519.21 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 521.29 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 519.37 |================================================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 48.95 |================================================= Fedora 19 ........... 48.41 |================================================= Fedora 20 ........... 48.58 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 48.76 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 49.51 |================================================== Fedora 23 ........... 49.34 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 49.41 |================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 119.98 |============================================= Fedora 19 ........... 125.45 |=============================================== Fedora 20 ........... 125.40 |=============================================== Fedora 21 ........... 130.27 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 131.06 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 131.20 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 130.49 |================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 36.44 |================================================== Fedora 19 ........... 27.48 |====================================== Fedora 20 ........... 27.17 |===================================== Fedora 21 ........... 25.40 |=================================== Fedora 22 ........... 25.13 |================================== Fedora 23 ........... 25.07 |================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 25.09 |================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 15.26 |================================================== Fedora 19 ........... 15.22 |================================================== Fedora 20 ........... 15.15 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 15.20 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 15.08 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 15.02 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 15.02 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 27.77 |================================================== Fedora 19 ........... 27.38 |================================================= Fedora 20 ........... 27.32 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 26.15 |=============================================== Fedora 22 ........... 23.99 |=========================================== Fedora 23 ........... 23.98 |=========================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 23.97 |=========================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 40.01 |================================================== Fedora 19 ........... 37.57 |=============================================== Fedora 20 ........... 37.88 |=============================================== Fedora 21 ........... 26.65 |================================= Fedora 22 ........... 26.69 |================================= Fedora 23 ........... 26.38 |================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 26.49 |================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 623.10 |================================================= Fedora 19 ........... 613.80 |================================================ Fedora 20 ........... 623.83 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 613.60 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 622.10 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 621.83 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 621.97 |================================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 884848.92 |============================================== Fedora 19 ........... 856341.39 |============================================= Fedora 20 ........... 849973.14 |============================================ Fedora 21 ........... 821976.88 |=========================================== Fedora 22 ........... 857783.88 |============================================= Fedora 23 ........... 859160.50 |============================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 823624.56 |=========================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 663905.46 |============================================== Fedora 19 ........... 652694.17 |============================================= Fedora 20 ........... 640928.92 |============================================ Fedora 21 ........... 649921.10 |============================================= Fedora 22 ........... 630799.81 |============================================ Fedora 23 ........... 638707.35 |============================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 649653.75 |============================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 7508.68 |================================= Fedora 19 ........... 7276.86 |================================ Fedora 20 ........... 7187.33 |================================ Fedora 21 ........... 10677.77 |=============================================== Fedora 22 ........... 10427.15 |============================================== Fedora 23 ........... 10189.89 |============================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 10319.97 |=============================================