Fedora 23 Desktops
Some Fedora 23 desktop benchmarks by Michael Larabel. Tests for a future article on phoronix.com.


KDE Plasma: 

	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: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Xfce: 

	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: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

GNOME Shell: 

	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: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

LXDE: 

	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: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

MATE: 

	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: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
KDE Plasma .. 257.10 |=========================================
Xfce ........ 360.07 |=========================================================
GNOME Shell . 337.53 |=====================================================
LXDE ........ 343.83 |======================================================
MATE ........ 348.40 |=======================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
KDE Plasma .. 96.63  |=======================================================
Xfce ........ 100.47 |=========================================================
GNOME Shell . 101.03 |=========================================================
LXDE ........ 100.37 |=========================================================
MATE ........ 100.80 |=========================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
KDE Plasma .. MIN: 3.0  AVG: 10.2  MAX: 24.0 
Xfce ........ MIN: 5.0  AVG: 9.7   MAX: 17.0 
GNOME Shell . MIN: 5.0  AVG: 9.7   MAX: 17.0 
LXDE ........ MIN: 5.0  AVG: 9.8   MAX: 24.0 
MATE ........ MIN: 5.0  AVG: 9.7   MAX: 17.0 


Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
KDE Plasma .. 92.69  |================================================
Xfce ........ 93.43  |=================================================
GNOME Shell . 106.08 |=======================================================
LXDE ........ 109.08 |=========================================================
MATE ........ 107.88 |========================================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
KDE Plasma .. 113.81 |==================================================
Xfce ........ 112.83 |=================================================
GNOME Shell . 130.14 |=========================================================
LXDE ........ 129.28 |=========================================================
MATE ........ 130.39 |=========================================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
KDE Plasma .. 96.21  |====================================================
Xfce ........ 102.01 |=======================================================
GNOME Shell . 104.62 |=========================================================
LXDE ........ 104.83 |=========================================================
MATE ........ 105.33 |=========================================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
KDE Plasma .. 73.35 |====================================================
Xfce ........ 82.22 |==========================================================
GNOME Shell . 80.61 |=========================================================
LXDE ........ 80.98 |=========================================================
MATE ........ 80.89 |=========================================================