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 Antergos 16.9-Rolling: 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: Antergos Linux 16.9-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.7.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, Compiler: GCC 6.2.1 20160830, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 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 |=========================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 342.34 |========================================== 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 |================================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 141 |========================================== 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 |============================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1460.76 |============================================== 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 |=========================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1914.59 |============================================= 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 |=============================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 14488 |================================================ 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 |=================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1729174.09 |=============================== 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 |================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1229971.21 |============================== 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 |======================================= 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 |============================================ Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1704.02 |============================================= 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 |======================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 431.34 |=============================================== 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 |================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 8.60 |================= 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 |============================================= Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 64.41 |================================================ 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 |=========================================== Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 11.25 |==========================================