Ubuntu 16.10 Linux Beta Benchmarks vs. 16.04 LTS vs. Clear
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


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 |=================================================


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  |=================


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 |================================================


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 |==================================================


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 |==================================================


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 |================================================


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 |===================================================


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 |============================================


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 |================================================


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 |=============================================


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 |=============================================


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 |=======================================