Debian 9.0 vs. Debian 8.8 vs. CentOS 7 vs. Clear Linux Intel Core i5-6600K tests on different distributions for a future article on Phoronix. Debian 9.0 Testing: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel HD 530 (Skylake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Debian 9.0, Kernel: 4.9.0-3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.0.6, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian 8.8: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 191f, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel Device a170, Network: Intel Connection OS: Debian 8.8, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: modesetting 0.9.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.5 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 CentOS Linux 7: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel HD 530 (Skylake GT2) (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.2, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Clear Linux 15620: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel HD 530 (Skylake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux 15620, Kernel: 4.11.3-354.native (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 7.1.0 + Clang 4.0.0 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 81.53 |================================================= CentOS Linux 7 ..... 39.03 |======================= Clear Linux 15620 .. 84.83 |=================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 60.93 |================================================= CentOS Linux 7 ..... 40.43 |================================= Clear Linux 15620 .. 63.37 |=================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 16.4 MAX: 34.0 CentOS Linux 7 ..... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 24.7 MAX: 42.0 Clear Linux 15620 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 15.7 MAX: 34.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 60.77 |================================================= Clear Linux 15620 .. 62.97 |=================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 200.44 |================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 160.29 |======================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 200.50 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 117.47 |=============================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 83.06 |================================= Clear Linux 15620 .. 124.12 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 94.86 |================================================= CentOS Linux 7 ..... 69.27 |==================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 98.62 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 698 |===================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 695 |===================================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 694 |===================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 39290 |=================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 24583 |================================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 37829 |================================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 15.12 |======================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 19.26 |=================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 15.97 |========================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 11.47 |============================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 35.29 |=================================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 35.06 |================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 35.45 |=================================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 25.43 |===================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 55.84 |=============================== Debian 8.8 ......... 90.43 |=================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 77.51 |============================================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 57.26 |================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 39.33 |========================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 48.26 |=================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 38.67 |========================================= Clear Linux 15620 .. 37.48 |======================================== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 2048 Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 17580 |=================================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 17258 |================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 16228 |=============================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 16334 |=============================================== Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 10472 |============ Debian 8.8 ......... 43713 |=================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 11938 |============== Clear Linux 15620 .. 9452 |=========== Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 14062471 |========== Debian 8.8 ......... 66946900 |================================================ CentOS Linux 7 ..... 16877495 |============ Clear Linux 15620 .. 14683667 |=========== Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 3385723 |=============== Debian 8.8 ......... 10880449 |================================================ CentOS Linux 7 ..... 3630784 |================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 3283931 |============== Numpy Benchmark Phoronix Test Suite v7.2.0m3 Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 5376310 |===================== Debian 8.8 ......... 10071633 |======================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 12051332 |================================================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 4608267 |================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 170.10 |================================================= Debian 8.8 ......... 146.30 |========================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 164.47 |=============================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 174.87 |================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 2296.50 |============================================ Debian 8.8 ......... 2359.39 |============================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 2453.02 |=============================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 2540.66 |================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 157.21 |================================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 152.13 |================================================ CentOS Linux 7 ..... 132.62 |========================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 140.18 |============================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 21.35 |============================================ Debian 8.8 ......... 22.41 |============================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 21.38 |============================================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 24.83 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 5.06 |========================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 5.32 |============================================ CentOS Linux 7 ..... 6.26 |==================================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 5.05 |========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 9.71 |========================================= Debian 8.8 ......... 11.74 |================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 12.04 |=================================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 9.20 |======================================= libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 168.09 |================================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 154.97 |============================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 164.29 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 1739.50 |============================= Debian 8.8 ......... 2344.27 |======================================= CentOS Linux 7 ..... 1916.82 |================================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 2921.16 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 1855.07 |============================== Debian 8.8 ......... 2422.54 |======================================= CentOS Linux 7 ..... 1926.07 |=============================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 3045.88 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 4615.70 |======================================= Debian 8.8 ......... 5172.65 |============================================ CentOS Linux 7 ..... 4572.25 |======================================= Clear Linux 15620 .. 5789.35 |================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 4730.66 |======================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 5172.96 |=========================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 4734.50 |======================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 5855.89 |================================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 3121876.42 |=========================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 2947029.00 |======================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 2343839.08 |================================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 3370896.92 |============================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 2197999.33 |============================================ Debian 8.8 ......... 2057618.95 |========================================= CentOS Linux 7 ..... 1727181.25 |================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 2320210.67 |============================================== Blender 2.78c Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 800.63 |=============================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 855.08 |================================================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 776.34 |============================================= Clear Linux 15620 .. 796.74 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 44403.03 |====================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 48422.88 |========================================= CentOS Linux 7 ..... 18599.24 |================ Clear Linux 15620 .. 56327.19 |================================================ PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 509052 |=============================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 215809 |==================== CentOS Linux 7 ..... 220134 |==================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 542129 |================================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Phoronix Test Suite v7.2.0m3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.0 Testing . 160.43 |================================================== Debian 8.8 ......... 159.88 |================================================== Clear Linux 15620 .. 12.26 |====