Big 2015 Q4 Linux Distribution Comparison
Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Many Linux distribution benchmarks from the same system.
openSUSE 42.1
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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: SUSE LINUX 42.1, Kernel: 4.1.12-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-suse-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-plugin --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-ssp --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --host=x86_64-suse-linux --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch-32=i586 --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-tune=generic --without-system-libunwind
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / attr2,inode64,noquota,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Fedora Workstation 23
OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-libmpx --enable-multilib --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic
Disk Notes: CFQ / data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
System Notes: SELinux: Enabled.
Ubuntu 15.10
OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Antergos 2015.10-Rolling
OS: Antergos Linux 2015.10-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-install-libiberty --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,discard,noatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Debian 8.2
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Debian 8.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i586 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
CentOS 7
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.2.7 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic
Disk Notes: CFQ / attr2,inode64,noquota,relatime,rw,seclabel
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
System Notes: SELinux: Enabled.
Manjaro 15.11
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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: ManjaroLinux 15.11, Kernel: 3.18.23-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-install-libiberty --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-lto --enable-multilib --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu
Disk Notes: BFQ / data=ordered,discard,noatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
OpenArena
Xonotic
This is a benchmark of Xonotic, which is a fork of the DarkPlaces-based Nexuiz game. Development began in March of 2010 on the Xonotic game. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GpuTest
GpuTest is a cross-platform OpenGL benchmark developed at Geeks3D.com that offers tech demos such as FurMark, TessMark, and other workloads to stress various areas of GPUs and drivers. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Redis
Redis is an open-source data structure server. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PostMark
This is a test of NetApp's PostMark benchmark designed to simulate small-file testing similar to the tasks endured by web and mail servers. This test profile will set PostMark to perform 25,000 transactions with 500 files simultaneously with the file sizes ranging between 5 and 512 kilobytes. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PostgreSQL pgbench
OpenArena
Timed ImageMagick Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build ImageMagick. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Parallel BZIP2 Compression
Smallpt
openSUSE 42.1
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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: SUSE LINUX 42.1, Kernel: 4.1.12-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-suse-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-plugin --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-ssp --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --host=x86_64-suse-linux --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch-32=i586 --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-tune=generic --without-system-libunwind
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / attr2,inode64,noquota,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 3 November 2015 23:25 by user .
Fedora Workstation 23
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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 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, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-libmpx --enable-multilib --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic
Disk Notes: CFQ / data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
System Notes: SELinux: Enabled.
Testing initiated at 4 November 2015 11:58 by user phoronix.
Ubuntu 15.10
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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 4 November 2015 16:18 by user phoronix.
Antergos 2015.10-Rolling
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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Antergos Linux 2015.10-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-install-libiberty --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,discard,noatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 4 November 2015 17:07 by user .
Debian 8.2
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel Wellsburg HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Debian 8.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i586 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 5 November 2015 09:26 by user phoronix.
CentOS 7
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.2.7 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic
Disk Notes: CFQ / attr2,inode64,noquota,relatime,rw,seclabel
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
System Notes: SELinux: Enabled.
Testing initiated at 5 November 2015 11:55 by user phoronix.
Manjaro 15.11
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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection
OS: ManjaroLinux 15.11, Kernel: 3.18.23-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Compiler Notes: --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-install-libiberty --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-lto --enable-multilib --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu
Disk Notes: BFQ / data=ordered,discard,noatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 5 November 2015 13:47 by user .