Fedora 26 vs. Fedora 27 Beta Benchmarks Intel Core i7-8700K Fedora Linux testing by Michael Larabel for a future article. Fedora 26: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.00GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A, Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Force MP500, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 26, Kernel: 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.3, Display Server: Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 4.0.1), Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20170915, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Fedora 27 Post Beta: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.00GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A, Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 16GB Voyager 3.0 + 120GB Force MP500, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 27, Kernel: 4.13.5-300.fc27.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 4.0.1), Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20170915, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 17.31 |================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 17.24 |================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 557.43 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 559.27 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 139355 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 139813 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 741.47 |=============================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 774.57 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 185363 |=============================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 193638 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 513.81 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 513.98 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 128448 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 128491 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 736.46 |============================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 789.11 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 184111 |============================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 197273 |================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 247.18 |========================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 289.87 |================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 628.40 |========================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 726.13 |================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 320.85 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 289.60 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 1541.67 |=============================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 1577.12 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 388.04 |=============================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 406.93 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 3430.23 |================================================ Fedora 27 Post Beta . 3417.08 |================================================ ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 212.03 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 204.70 |=============================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 379.32 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 377.10 |================================================= Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 291.21 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 291.18 |================================================= Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 236.11 |=============================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 246.13 |================================================= FFTW 3.3.6 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 1024 Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 33873 |================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 33770 |================================================== FFTW 3.3.6 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 2048 Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 27485 |================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 26643 |================================================ FFTW 3.3.6 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 24015 |================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 24114 |================================================== Bork File Encrypter 1.4 File Encryption Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 6.00 |=================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 6.01 |=================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 365.62 |================================================ Fedora 27 Post Beta . 376.74 |================================================= x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 300.94 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 299.22 |================================================= ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 390808 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 366426 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 76.65 |================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 74.31 |================================================ Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 52.83 |================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 52.43 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 13.58 |================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 13.56 |================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 5.10 |=================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 5.09 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 8.96 |=================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 9.02 |=================================================== FFmpeg 3.3.3 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 4.35 |=================================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 4.35 |=================================================== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 171.93 |================================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 169.94 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 6370.17 |============================================ Fedora 27 Post Beta . 6989.32 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 9857.10 |============================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 10405.89 |=============================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 2579468.50 |===================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 3162415.25 |============================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 1876582.95 |==================================== Fedora 27 Post Beta . 2340216.67 |============================================= Java JMH Throughput Ops/s > Higher Is Better Fedora 26 ........... 24479963923.49 |========================================= Fedora 27 Post Beta . 24490627384.50 |=========================================