Ubuntu 16.10 Linux Beta Benchmarks vs. 16.04 LTS vs. Clear vs. openSUSE Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 testing of Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 vs. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and Clear Linux. Tests by Michael Larabel. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS: 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: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2: 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: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20160914, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 Clear Linux 10660: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux 10660, Kernel: 4.7.5-263.native (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 + Clang 3.9.0 + LLVM 3.9.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Fedora 24: 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: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 24, Kernel: 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.1 (git-79b0e13) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160510, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 openSUSE 20160927: 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: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: openSUSE 20160927, Kernel: 4.7.4-2-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.0.3 Gallium 0.4, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 365.45 |================================================ Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 367.12 |================================================ Clear Linux 10660 ... 376.08 |================================================= Fedora 24 ........... 367.12 |================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 24.41 |================================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 8.11 |================= Fedora 24 ........... 23.19 |================================================ openSUSE 20160927 ... 9.21 |=================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1314.27 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1312.96 |============================================ Clear Linux 10660 ... 1410.64 |=============================================== openSUSE 20160927 ... 1447.15 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 14174 |================================================= Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 14462 |================================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 14448 |================================================== Fedora 24 ........... 13989 |================================================ openSUSE 20160927 ... 14264 |================================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 338.50 |============================================ Clear Linux 10660 .. 385.20 |================================================== Fedora 24 .......... 346.18 |============================================= openSUSE 20160927 .. 350.27 |============================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 136 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 136 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 166 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1767.17 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1771.88 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 1961.67 |================================================ Fedora 24 ........... 1717.04 |========================================== openSUSE 20160927 ... 1826.95 |============================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 53.57 |============================================= Clear Linux 10660 .. 60.34 |=================================================== Fedora 24 .......... 60.11 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 12.73 |================================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 12.30 |================================================ Clear Linux 10660 ... 11.27 |============================================ Fedora 24 ........... 11.96 |=============================================== openSUSE 20160927 ... 11.33 |============================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1632.49 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1702.04 |============================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 1757.09 |================================================ Fedora 24 ........... 1718.00 |=============================================== openSUSE 20160927 ... 1693.71 |============================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1831202.81 |=================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1968928.83 |===================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 2364338.42 |============================================= Fedora 24 ........... 1672901.06 |================================ openSUSE 20160927 ... 1944935.98 |===================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1373740.10 |=================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1343009.85 |================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 1766993.50 |============================================= Fedora 24 ........... 1371894.00 |=================================== openSUSE 20160927 ... 1386295.69 |=================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 33129.63 |=============================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 26105.23 |===================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 27688.39 |=======================================