CLear Linux 20610 vs. openSUSE Leap 15 Beta
Tests for a future article.


Clear Linux 20610: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1004 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR4-3200MT/s Corsair CMK16GX4M4C3200C16, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Clear Linux OS 20610, Kernel: 4.15.0-517.native (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + Clang 5.0.1 + LLVM 5.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1004 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: AMD Radeon 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta, Kernel: 4.12.14-lp150.4-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.11.95, Display Server: X Server 1.19.5, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.4.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.3.2 (LLVM 5.0.1), Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20171020 [gcc-7-branch revision 253932], File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

openSUSE Leap 42.3: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1004 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: openSUSE 42.3, Kernel: 4.4.76-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.8.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

CentOS Linux 7: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1004 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.7.99, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.1 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 1805.00 |============================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 1073.94 |==========================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 1085.37 |==========================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 750.88  |==================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 682.11 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 464.73 |===============================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 432.11 |=============================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 272.95 |==================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 1230.83 |=========================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 233.92  |=====
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 2131.61 |============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 2099.12 |===========================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP LBM
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 71.26 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 71.99 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 73.06 |==============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 72.21 |=============================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP CUTCP
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 2.58 |=================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 3.29 |==========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 3.60 |==============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 3.69 |===============================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP Stencil
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 7.98 |======================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 8.92 |==========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 9.92 |===============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 9.52 |=============================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 145.12 |=========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 139.27 |=======================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 157.66 |============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 160.54 |=============================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP LavaMD
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 19.70 |================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 45.58 |====================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 44.28 |===================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 57.48 |==============================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP CFD Solver
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 12.18 |=================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 12.10 |=================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 16.79 |==============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 16.69 |==============================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP Streamcluster
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 13.92 |===========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 14.80 |==============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 14.68 |==============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 14.12 |============================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 4.23  |=================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 10.24 |========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 11.66 |==============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 11.05 |============================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: http
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 7965   |===
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 8417   |===
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 68237  |======================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 138442 |=============================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: json
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 3314456 |======================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 3537783 |========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 3555876 |========================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 3864652 |============================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: build
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 11959151076 |============================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 14644703515 |==================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 15428945784 |====================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 17347315978 |========================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: garbage
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 807997  |==========================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 789701  |==========================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 1359293 |============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 1341100 |===========================================


TSCP 1.81
AI Chess Performance
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 1388544 |============================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 1394144 |============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 1383875 |===========================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 1400759 |============================================


x264 2017-09-08
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 464.13 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 323.11 |===============================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 353.10 |==================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 355.63 |==================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 3034.43 |============================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 3009.18 |============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 2916.31 |==========================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 2841.12 |=========================================


Stockfish 2014-11-26
Total Time
ms < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 2885 |==============================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 2728 |===========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 2961 |===============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 2840 |=============================================


FFmpeg 3.3.3
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 5.99  |=====================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 13.06 |==============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 10.82 |======================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Total
ms < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 24544.50 |=================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 58315.00 |========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 63358.00 |===========================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 63032.00 |===========================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Kernel
ms < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 1098.40 |====================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 2367.00 |============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 1680.00 |===============================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 909.00  |=================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Loader
ms < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 14.60   |
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 9058.00 |===========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 9341.00 |============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 5638.00 |===========================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Firmware
ms < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 22401.70 |=========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 23363.00 |===========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 23537.00 |===========================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 22753.00 |==========================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Userspace
ms < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 1029.60  |=
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 21424.00 |=============================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 26640.00 |====================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 32029.00 |===========================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: LPOP
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 3216060.00 |=========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 2038064.67 |==========================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 98550.81   |=
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 91477.05   |=


Redis 3.0.1
Test: SADD
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 2463723.50 |=========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 1634977.83 |===========================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 98525.10   |==
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 91186.43   |==


Redis 3.0.1
Test: LPUSH
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 2136875.08 |=========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 1598576.29 |===============================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 98677.25   |==
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 92058.12   |==


Redis 3.0.1
Test: GET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 2974343.67 |=========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 2026912.65 |============================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 97935.91   |=
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 92242.50   |=


Redis 3.0.1
Test: SET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 2207369.56 |=========================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 1532696.72 |============================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 99201.62   |==
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 91774.08   |==


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Clear Linux 20610 ....... 1078 |===================================
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 1319 |===========================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 1328 |===========================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 1458 |===============================================


ET: Legacy 2.75
Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 210.67 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 198.93 |==========================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 197.40 |==========================================


Xonotic 0.8.2
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 266.69 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 133.19 |======================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 215.97 |====================================


Xonotic 0.8.2
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 213.77 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 104.72 |======================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 180.07 |======================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 92176 |==============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 92678 |==============================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 91438 |=============================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 11390 |==============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 9504  |======================================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 9480  |======================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta . 446536 |=============================================
openSUSE Leap 42.3 ...... 195701 |====================
CentOS Linux 7 .......... 186157 |===================