Ubuntu 18.10 vs. Clear Linux Intel Linux Benchmarks Intel Core i9-9900K testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 18.10: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Clear Linux 25720: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux OS 25720, Kernel: 4.18.15-644.native (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.2, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.0-devel (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device a36f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 50620 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 53157 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 50182 |================================================ Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 202 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 196 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 202 |===================================================== BRL-CAD 7.28.0 VGR Performance Metric VGR Performance Metric > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 112674 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 115276 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 112075 |================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 75.25 |============================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 72.71 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 84.96 |=================================================== Chaos Group V-RAY 1.1.0 Mode: CPU Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 74.18 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 71.64 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 74.06 |=================================================== CloverLeaf Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 5.18 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 5.35 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 5.39 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 930 |============================ Clear Linux 25720 .. 1718 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 952 |============================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 624 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 656 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 616 |================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.3 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 25720 . 1254783 |================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1914659 |======================================================= Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 1117884 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 980589 |============================================ Cython benchmark 0.27 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 18.59 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 19.17 |==================================================== Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 13.79 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 13.76 |=================================================== Darktable 2.4.4 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 13.76 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 13.40 |=================================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 221 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 .. 242 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 236 |==================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 8.20 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 7.72 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 8.32 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 113 |========================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 236 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 169 |====================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 79.11 |======================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 156.53 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 165.16 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 46.88 |======================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 61.03 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 34.50 |============================= GIMP 2.10.6 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 7.34 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 5.26 |====================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 5.76 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 5.69 |=================================================== GNU Octave Benchmark 4.2.2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 6.60 |==================================================== GNU Octave Benchmark 4.4.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 11.77 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 8.11 |==================================== Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 4128 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 4004 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 4151 |==================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 5677752 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 5539336 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 5696823 |================================================= Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 10980544583 |====================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 12863675786 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 11016595822 |======================================= Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 1139166 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 1113916 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 1141139 |================================================= Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 28.27 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 3.01 |===== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 29.41 |=================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 3161 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 3300 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 3389 |==================================================== IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Bedroom M samples/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 1.36 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 1.43 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 1.36 |================================================= IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Supercar M samples/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 3.19 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 3.41 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 3.18 |================================================ Node.js Express HTTP Load Test Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 10737 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 .. 11398 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 10532 |=============================================== Node.js Octane Benchmark Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 54606 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 54905 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 53799 |================================================== Numpy Benchmark Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 3953449 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 .. 3867404 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 4024301 |================================================= OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 2634 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 2620 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 2640 |==================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 34.74 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 34.66 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 13.24 |=================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 3483 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 3475 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 1327 |==================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 97.01 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 97.84 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 93.38 |================================================= ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 1011 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 1020 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 973 |================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 78.93 |=================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 112.77 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 62.67 |============================ ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiVoxels / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 1263 |==================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 1804 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 1003 |============================= Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 0.09475259 |============================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 0.09327504 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 0.09638730 |============================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 0.00189695 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 0.00075008 |================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 0.00082606 |==================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 802672 |======================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 997134 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 813134 |========================================= POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 48.79 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 46.74 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 48.23 |================================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 844 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 801 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 838 |===================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 35.41 |======================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 34.18 |======================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 74.26 |=================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 21.54 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 22.58 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 22.42 |=================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 17.58 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 .. 17.49 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 18.57 |=================================================== Rust Mandelbrot Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 45.87 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 45.89 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 45.97 |=================================================== Rust Prime Benchmark Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 11.22 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 11.17 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 11.17 |=================================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 12.14 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 9.56 |======================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 10.53 |============================================ SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 70.45 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 40.20 |============================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 41.45 |============================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 25445111 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 26586365 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 25358395 |============================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 24052 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 2519 |===== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 12779 |=========================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 2506 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 967 |==================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 2455 |=================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Loader ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 1201.00 |================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 21.10 | Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 3476.00 |================================================= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Firmware ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 5601 |================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 16051 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 5519 |================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 21546 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 1552 |==== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 10324 |======================== Tensorflow 2017-02-03 Build: Cifar10 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 41.21 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 41.04 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 41.49 |=================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 201 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 214 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 202 |================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 72.02 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 66.67 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 68.86 |================================================= Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 409 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 415 |===================================================== Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: High - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 37.03 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 36.87 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 36.37 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 450 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 459 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 446 |=================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 310 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 336 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 317 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 264 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 .. 284 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 250 |=============================================== Zstd Compression Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 107.00 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 27.93 |=============