Intel Xeon Skylake E3 v5 - Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Intel Xeon Skylake E3 1280 v5 benchmarks by Michael Larabel. Comparing Intel Clear Linux to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in its current development form.


Ubuntu 16.04: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION150, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-ff360a5 2016-02-22 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Clear Linux 6470: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Clear Linux 6470, Kernel: 4.4.2-171.native (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


R Benchmark
Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 0.4387 |====================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 0.2038 |========================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 4483.54 |================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 7111.55 |===================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 49096.47 |==================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 37300.57 |======================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 2674.95 |================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 2827.95 |===================================================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 1GB Array, 256 Byte Stride, 2 Threads
ns < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 59.80 |===================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 61.65 |=====================================================


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 19.99 |=====================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 19.50 |====================================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 7726.98 |==================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 7914.19 |===================================================


x264 2015-11-02
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 209.03 |===================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 213.90 |====================================================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 256MB Array, 256 Byte Stride
ns < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 57.64 |====================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 58.71 |=====================================================


Multichase Pointer Chaser
Test: 4MB Array, 64 Byte Stride
ns < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 5.29 |=====================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 5.38 |======================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 697.77 |====================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 696.27 |====================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 14.60 |=====================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 14.63 |=====================================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: SET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 2199479.58 |================================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 2052748.15 |=============================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: GET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 16.04 ..... 3027864.71 |=============================================
Clear Linux 6470 . 3254380.00 |================================================