Fedora Linux 23 Through 21 Testing Intel Core i5-4250U testing with a Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF and Intel Haswell-ULT IGP . Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article. Fedora 23: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Fedora 23 + Updates: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.6 (git-2555e00), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Fedora 22: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.4, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Fedora 21: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.916, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.3, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150212, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 324.00 |=============================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 308.19 |============================================= Fedora 22 ........... 317.66 |============================================== Fedora 21 ........... 335.24 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 168.72 |================================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 161.44 |============================================== Fedora 22 ........... 171.88 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 170.62 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 705.88 |================================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 698.77 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 718.23 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 678.47 |============================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 11.13 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 11.35 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 11.23 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 11.39 |================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 47.68 |========================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 54.17 |=============================================== Fedora 22 ........... 52.78 |============================================= Fedora 21 ........... 58.20 |================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 53.47 |================================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 55.61 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 47.96 |=========================================== Fedora 21 ........... 54.34 |================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 85.85 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 86.33 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 75.80 |============================================ Fedora 21 ........... 59.86 |=================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 68.56 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 69.50 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 60.86 |============================================ Fedora 21 ........... 58.25 |========================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 3715 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 3786 |=================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 3629 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 3443 |============================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 76.80 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 77.48 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 75.41 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 74.91 |================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 427.14 |================================================= Fedora 23 + Updates . 426.18 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 414.49 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 415.58 |================================================ x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 52.35 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 52.40 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 49.80 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 50.06 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 88.85 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 88.48 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 88.73 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 87.61 |================================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 43.16 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 43.43 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 43.22 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 42.58 |================================================= FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 25.16 |================================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 25.02 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 26.33 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 26.16 |================================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 25.16 |================================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 25.91 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 24.84 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 26.02 |================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ........... 1171.05 |============================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 1195.98 |============================================= Fedora 22 ........... 1202.04 |============================================= Fedora 21 ........... 1276.55 |================================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ........... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 20.5 MAX: 48.0 Fedora 23 + Updates . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 19.5 MAX: 45.0 Fedora 22 ........... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 23.7 MAX: 55.0 Fedora 21 ........... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 17.3 MAX: 33.0