Fedora 21 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 Fedora 21 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 64-bit Linux benchmarks. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"Fedora 21","Ubuntu 14.10" Processor,,Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores) Motherboard,,MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0,MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0 Chipset,,Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core,Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core Memory,,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08,80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08 Graphics,,ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7850 1024MB,ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7850 1024MB Audio,,Intel C610/X99,Intel C610/X99 Monitor,,VE228,VE228 Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection OS,,Fedora 21,Ubuntu 14.10 Kernel,,3.17.4-300.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64),3.16.0-25-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.14.2,Unity 7.3.1 Display Server,,X Server 1.16.2,X Server 1.16.0 Display Driver,,radeon 7.5.0,radeon 7.4.0 OpenGL,,3.3 Mesa 10.3.3 Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.9.2 20141101,GCC 4.9.1 File-System,,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Fedora 21","Ubuntu 14.10" "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,22.08,25.95 "Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,2013,2287 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,186.21,164.16 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencil (sec)",LIB,13.52,12.03 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,265.59,241.65 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,100.89,94.97 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,38.02,35.94 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,95.92,90.90 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,101.79,97.45 "BLAKE2 - Phoronix Test Suite v5.4.0m6 (Cycles/Byte)",LIB,5.95,5.70 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,7.74,7.42 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,103.32,107.18 "N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,18.64,18.06 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,11.07,10.73 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,1271.10,1305.07 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,73.53,75.39 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,94.83,97.07 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,33.35,32.59 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,5173,5282 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,12.37,12.63 "Stockfish - Total Time (ms)",LIB,3686,3641 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding (sec)",LIB,100.74,99.58 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,28.74,29.01 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,336.84,338.63 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,17.58,17.67 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1870.22,1879.39 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP MRI-Q (sec)",LIB,16.46,16.49 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,37,37 "Hierarchical INTegration - Test: FLOAT (QUIPs)",HIB,217479848.64,294484192.17 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Streamcluster (sec)",LIB,22.24,19.05