Ubuntu 16.10 Linux Beta Benchmarks vs. 16.04 LTS vs. Clear vs. openSUSE
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

Fedora 24: 

	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: Fedora 24, Kernel: 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.1 (git-79b0e13) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160510, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

openSUSE 20160927: 

	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: openSUSE 20160927, Kernel: 4.7.4-2-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.0.3 Gallium 0.4, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Antergos 16.9-Rolling: 

	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: Antergos Linux 16.9-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.7.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, Compiler: GCC 6.2.1 20160830, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


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 |===============================================
Fedora 24 ............. 346.18 |==========================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 350.27 |===========================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 342.34 |==========================================


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 |==================================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 141 |==========================================


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 |============================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 1447.15 |==============================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1460.76 |==============================================


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 |==============================================
Fedora 24 ............. 1717.04 |========================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 1826.95 |===========================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1914.59 |=============================================


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 |================================================
Fedora 24 ............. 13989 |==============================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 14264 |===============================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 14488 |================================================


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 |===========================================
Fedora 24 ............. 1672901.06 |==============================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 1944935.98 |===================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1729174.09 |===============================


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 |===========================================
Fedora 24 ............. 1371894.00 |=================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 1386295.69 |==================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1229971.21 |==============================


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 |=======================================


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 |==============================================
Fedora 24 ............. 1718.00 |=============================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 1693.71 |============================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 1704.02 |=============================================


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 |=========================================
Fedora 24 ............. 367.12 |========================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 431.34 |===============================================


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  |================
Fedora 24 ............. 23.19 |==============================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 9.21  |==================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 8.60  |=================


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 |=============================================
Fedora 24 ............. 60.11 |=============================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 64.41 |================================================


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 |==========================================
Fedora 24 ............. 11.96 |=============================================
openSUSE 20160927 ..... 11.33 |===========================================
Antergos 16.9-Rolling . 11.25 |==========================================