Ubuntu 16.10 Linux Beta Benchmarks vs. 16.04 LTS vs. Clear Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 testing of Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 vs. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and Clear Linux. Tests by Michael Larabel. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS: 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: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2: 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: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20160914, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 Clear Linux 10660: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux 10660, Kernel: 4.7.5-263.native (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 + Clang 3.9.0 + LLVM 3.9.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 33129.63 |=============================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 26105.23 |===================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 27688.39 |======================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1373740.10 |=================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1343009.85 |================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 1766993.50 |============================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1831202.81 |=================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1968928.83 |===================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 2364338.42 |============================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1632.49 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1702.04 |============================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 1757.09 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 12.73 |================================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 12.30 |================================================ Clear Linux 10660 ... 11.27 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 53.57 |============================================= Clear Linux 10660 .. 60.34 |=================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1767.17 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1771.88 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 1961.67 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 136 |=========================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 136 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 166 |==================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 338.50 |============================================ Clear Linux 10660 .. 385.20 |================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 14174 |================================================= Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 14462 |================================================== Clear Linux 10660 ... 14448 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 1314.27 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 1312.96 |============================================= Clear Linux 10660 ... 1410.64 |================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 24.41 |================================================== Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 8.11 |================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS .. 365.45 |================================================ Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 . 367.12 |================================================ Clear Linux 10660 ... 376.08 |=================================================