Ubuntu 15.10 vs. Fedora 23 - Intel Skylake Xeon Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 testing with a Supermicro X11SAE-M v1.01 and Intel Device 191d on Fedora 23 and Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ubuntu 15.10: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SAE-M v1.01, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel Device 191d (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151210, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Fedora 23 + Updates: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SAE-M v1.01, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC888-VD, Network: Intel Connection 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: 2.1 Mesa 11.0.6 (git-2555e00) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SAE-M v1.01, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel Device 191d (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.4.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) 20151214, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.6 (git-2555e00), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 5.36 |=========================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 5.25 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 5.36 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 11.60 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 11.36 |========================================= Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 11.64 |========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 2402.62 |====================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 2553.77 |======================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 2397.77 |====================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 20.97 |========================================= Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 21.28 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 21.05 |========================================== N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 40.94 |========================================= Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 42.14 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 42.08 |========================================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 3391 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 3329 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 3438 |=========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 102.96 |========================================= Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 95.22 |====================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 96.60 |====================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 200.56 |======================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 205.54 |========================================= Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 202.25 |======================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 20.38 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 20.44 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 20.39 |========================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 218.34 |========================================= Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 211.67 |======================================= Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 220.18 |========================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 73 |============================================ Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 75 |============================================= Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 75 |============================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 42274.69 |======================================= Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 19697.27 |================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 23817.12 |====================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 3063372.42 |===================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 2411578.67 |============================= Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 2338820.06 |============================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 1899742.81 |=================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 1727253.04 |================================ Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 1990759.17 |===================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 28.42 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 28.76 |========================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 28.65 |========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 3861.24 |======================================= Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 3988.60 |======================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 3938.37 |======================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ................ 5080.12 |======================================== Fedora 23 + Updates ......... 5069.25 |======================================== Fedora 23 + Rawhide Nodebug . 4961.79 |=======================================