Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 vs. Ubuntu 14.04
Benchmarks by MichaelLarabel.com of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 versus Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux development build in December. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Ubuntu 14.04 20131211: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.00GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v2/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DX001-1CM1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Ivytown DMI2, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DX001-1CM1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Intel C600/X79, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: RedHatEnterpriseEverything 7.0, Kernel: 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.99.901 (1.15.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131106, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 0.25 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 0.22 |=================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 0.18 |==========================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 0.26 |=====================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 178.62 |=============================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 213.07 |===================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 160.60 |===================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 132.75 |=============================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 4360 |==============================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 5357 |=====================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-HPL
GFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 65.96 |================================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-Ffte
GFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 3.11911 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: EP-DGEMM
GFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 6.54213 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-Ptrans
GB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 1.61631 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad
GB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 1.22658 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-Random Access
GUP/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 0.06975 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: Random Ring Latency
usecs < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 0.79671 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth
GB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 0.55298 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 12849.76 |=============================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP LavaMD
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 424.65 |===================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 425.09 |===================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP Leukocyte
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 23.69 |================================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP CFD Solver
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 63.06 |====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 63.58 |====================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP Streamcluster
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 32.71 |===================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 33.70 |====================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 8.87 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 8.94 |=====================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 4.36 |================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 4.97 |=====================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 9631 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 9401 |====================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 16171000 |=================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 15809667 |================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 41576 |====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 41948 |====================================


x264 2013-06-08
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 219.80 |===============================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 244.61 |===================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 1725.73 |==================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 1678.16 |=================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 17.28 |===================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 17.69 |====================================


Open Porous Media 2013-11-26
OPM Benchmark: Upscale-Relperm
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 54.84 |================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 55 |======================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 56 |=======================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: Raytests
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 3.62 |=================================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: 3000 Fall
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 4.73 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 4.68 |=====================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: 1000 Stack
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 5.73 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 5.72 |=====================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: 1000 Convex
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 5.80 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 5.78 |=====================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: 136 Ragdolls
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 3.67 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 3.68 |=====================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: Prim Trimesh
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 1.12 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 1.13 |=====================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: Convex Trimesh
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 1.40 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 1.40 |=====================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 4.87 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 4.86 |=====================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 13.09 |====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 13.19 |====================================


Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1
WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 8.83 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 8.83 |=====================================


FFmpeg 2.0
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 11.70 |===========================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 15.55 |====================================


N-Queens 1.0
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 24.96 |================================================


Hierarchical INTegration 1.0
Test: FLOAT
QUIPs > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 337660973.01 |=============================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 336372408.73 |=============================


Hierarchical INTegration 1.0
Test: DOUBLE
QUIPs > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 680141265.83 |=============================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 679672256.98 |=============================


NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 . 14538.65 |=============================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 20131211 ............. 14618.97 |=================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 . 8470.00  |===================