Fedora 23 vs. Ubuntu vs. Other Linux Benchmarks Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Fedora 23: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0 (git-525f3c2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Ubuntu 16.04 20160303: 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 Samsung SSD 850, 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: 4.4.0-9-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160225, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS: 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 Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-30-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, 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 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Debian Testing: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR4-2133MHz, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB (350/1400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.3.0-1-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160205, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Debian 8.3: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 1918, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB 2133MHz, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel Device a170, Network: Intel Connection OS: Debian 8.3, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: modesetting 0.9.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 CentOS 7: 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: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.6.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 31.79 |==================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 28.82 |================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 27.00 |=============================== Debian Testing ........ 30.58 |=================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 25.59 |============================= CentOS 7 .............. 41.84 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 300.15 |============================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 448.45 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 434.27 |========================================== Debian Testing ........ 466.33 |============================================= Debian 8.3 ............ 484.05 |=============================================== CentOS 7 .............. 207.74 |==================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 7212 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 7733 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 7426 |=============================================== Debian Testing ........ 7812 |================================================= Debian 8.3 ............ 7010 |============================================ CentOS 7 .............. 6578 |========================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 199.83 |========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 204.30 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 213.70 |============================================= Debian Testing ........ 225.63 |=============================================== CentOS 7 .............. 24.90 |===== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 4.8 MAX: 28.0 Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 4.8 MAX: 25.0 Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 4.7 MAX: 22.0 Debian Testing ........ MIN: 2.0 AVG: 4.4 MAX: 32.0 CentOS 7 .............. MIN: 27.0 AVG: 30.9 MAX: 40.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 151.38 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 153.17 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 153.44 |============================================ Debian Testing ........ 163.27 |=============================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 32.58 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 34.19 |=============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 29.86 |========================================= Debian Testing ........ 34.95 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 314.76 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 322.47 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 318.67 |============================================= Debian Testing ........ 335.96 |=============================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 139.80 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 141.25 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 142.37 |============================================ Debian Testing ........ 152.70 |=============================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 108.73 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 109.06 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 108.48 |============================================= Debian Testing ........ 114.13 |=============================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 1040 |================================================ Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 1054 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 944 |============================================ Debian Testing ........ 1058 |================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 67278 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 67272 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 66819 |=========================================== Debian Testing ........ 74981 |================================================ Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 19.88 |============================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 19.88 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 19.69 |============================================== Debian Testing ........ 19.63 |============================================= Debian 8.3 ............ 20.71 |================================================ CentOS 7 .............. 20.01 |============================================== Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 .......... 8044 |=== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS . 30632 |============ Debian Testing ..... 6892 |=== Debian 8.3 ......... 40111 |================ CentOS 7 ........... 126594 |================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 .......... 15742274 |========== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS . 73540524 |================================================ Debian Testing ..... 15644104 |========== Debian 8.3 ......... 65151193 |=========================================== CentOS 7 ........... 62685358 |========================================= Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 .......... 3547909 |=============== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS . 11124717 |=============================================== Debian Testing ..... 3554713 |=============== Debian 8.3 ......... 11028011 |=============================================== CentOS 7 ........... 11308511 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 7420 |================================================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 7425 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 7411 |================================================= Debian Testing ........ 7425 |================================================= Debian 8.3 ............ 7028 |============================================== CentOS 7 .............. 7286 |================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 2591.88 |============================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 2471.64 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 2454.57 |============================================ Debian Testing ........ 2590.83 |============================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 2502.56 |============================================ CentOS 7 .............. 2447.98 |=========================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 25.68 |=============================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 25.67 |=============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 26.49 |================================================ Debian 8.3 ............ 25.98 |=============================================== CentOS 7 .............. 24.87 |============================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 93.63 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 90.78 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 95.33 |============================================== Debian Testing ........ 89.56 |=========================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 98.88 |================================================ CentOS 7 .............. 90.13 |============================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 19.68 |=============================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 19.66 |=============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 19.97 |================================================ Debian Testing ........ 19.66 |=============================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 19.85 |=============================================== CentOS 7 .............. 20.06 |================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 9.09 |=============================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 8.95 |=============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 8.88 |============================================== Debian Testing ........ 9.02 |=============================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 9.38 |================================================= CentOS 7 .............. 9.01 |=============================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 72 |============================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 71 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 78 |================================================== Debian Testing ........ 70 |============================================= Debian 8.3 ............ 75 |================================================ CentOS 7 .............. 79 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 5.06 |======================================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 5.05 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 6.16 |================================================ Debian Testing ........ 5.09 |======================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 5.11 |======================================== CentOS 7 .............. 6.31 |================================================= R Benchmark Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 0.7758 |====================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 0.7459 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 0.9592 |=============================================== Debian Testing ........ 0.7824 |====================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 0.8586 |========================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 696.57 |=============================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 697.67 |=============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 697.23 |=============================================== Debian Testing ........ 697.13 |=============================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 689.53 |============================================== CentOS 7 .............. 692.17 |=============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 180.35 |=================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 214.15 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 243.90 |=============================================== Debian Testing ........ 206.97 |======================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 217.02 |========================================== CentOS 7 .............. 170.74 |================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 3090.40 |========================================= Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 3230.25 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 3473.16 |============================================== Debian Testing ........ 3269.82 |=========================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 3374.80 |============================================= CentOS 7 .............. 2756.06 |===================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 2677158.83 |===================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 2797261.13 |====================================== Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 2400030.00 |================================= Debian Testing ........ 3146510.08 |=========================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 2996242.92 |========================================= CentOS 7 .............. 1790450.63 |======================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 1912670.59 |====================================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 1991948.90 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 1766515.94 |=================================== Debian Testing ........ 2178796.96 |=========================================== Debian 8.3 ............ 2144816.67 |========================================== CentOS 7 .............. 1443494.47 |============================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 23 ............. 24412.70 |==================== Ubuntu 16.04 20160303 . 47372.72 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS .... 50589.12 |========================================= Debian 8.3 ............ 54964.18 |============================================= CentOS 7 .............. 19913.24 |================