Core i9 7980XE + Dual Xeon Gold - 8-Way Linux Distribution Comparison

Q4-2017 Linux distribution comparison on two systems. Eight Linux distros each, tested out-of-the-box performance. Linux OS benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix, by Michael Larabel.

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i9-7980XE: CentOS 7
November 15 2017
 
i9-7980XE: Fedora 27
November 16 2017
 
i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110
November 16 2017
 
i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2
November 16 2017
 
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Core i9 7980XE + Dual Xeon Gold - 8-Way Linux Distribution Comparison Q4-2017 Linux distribution comparison on two systems. Eight Linux distros each, tested out-of-the-box performance. Linux OS benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix, by Michael Larabel. ,,"i9-7980XE: CentOS 7","i9-7980XE: Fedora 27","i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110","i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2","i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17" Processor,,Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads) Motherboard,,ASUS PRIME X299-A,ASUS PRIME X299-A,ASUS PRIME X299-A,ASUS PRIME X299-A,ASUS PRIME X299-A Chipset,,Intel Device 2020,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Device 2020,Intel Device 2020 Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,4 x 4096 MB DDR4-3200MT/s Corsair CMK16GX4M4C3200C16,4 x 4096 MB DDR4-3200MHz Corsair CMK16GX4M4C3200C16,16384MB Disk,,16GB Voyager 3.0 + 120GB Force MP500,16GB Voyager 3.0 + 120GB Force MP500,16GB Voyager 3.0 + 120GB Force MP500,16GB Voyager 3.0 + 120GB Force MP500,120GB Force MP500 Graphics,,AMD Radeon RX 470/480/580 8192MB,AMD Radeon 8192MB,AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/580,LLVMpipe,AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB Audio,,Realtek Generic,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek Generic,Realtek ALC1220 Monitor,,Acer B286HK,Acer B286HK,,Acer B286HK,Acer B286HK Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection OS,,CentOS Linux 7,Fedora 27,Clear Linux OS 19110,Debian 9.2,Ubuntu 18.04 Kernel,,3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64),4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64 (x86_64),4.13.12-430.native (x86_64),4.9.0-4-amd64 (x86_64),4.13.0-16-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.22.3,GNOME Shell 3.26.1,,GNOME Shell 3.22.3,GNOME Shell 3.26.2 Display Server,,X Server 1.19.3,Wayland,,X Server 1.19.2,Wayland Display Driver,,radeon 7.7.99,,,modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL,,4.5 Mesa 17.0.1 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1),4.5 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 4.0.1),,3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9 256 bits),4.5 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0.0) Compiler,,GCC 4.8.5 20150623,GCC 7.2.1 20170915,GCC 7.2.1 20170910 + Clang 5.0.0 + LLVM 5.0.0,GCC 6.3.0 20170516,GCC 7.2.0 File-System,,xfs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,1024x768,1280x1024,3840x2160 Vulkan,,,,1.0.39,, ,,"i9-7980XE: CentOS 7","i9-7980XE: Fedora 27","i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110","i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2","i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17" "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,207.05,,284.32,256.10,344.17 "FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,457.33,,1048.80,764.58,670.22 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,223.52,,562.18,308.75,285.68 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,359.83,319.26,474.84,340.18,308.69 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,283.66,520.81,830.57,672.85,740.03 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,1413.14,1568.99,2536.68,1676.11,1734.80 "asmFish - 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth (Nodes/s)",HIB,53682320,53750894,55871631,53269673,56422424 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,29557,30127,29811,28311,31335 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,91060.97,2120479.71,2681003.75,108743.00,2214604.85 "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,90678.79,2633010.42,3554512.42,108766.63,2720580.21 "Redis - Test: LPUSH (Reqs/sec)",HIB,91076.38,2107641.42,2609126.83,108739.01,2156957.77 "Redis - Test: LPOP (Reqs/sec)",HIB,90513.03,2261366.75,3003021.08,108715.56,2451389.25 "Redis - Test: SADD (Reqs/sec)",HIB,90879.35,2379103.25,3006018.08,108833.87,2487581.08 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,184168,,721859,370800,608245 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,7424.87,9057.61,16446.04,9196.02,9063.68 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,48286.11,541950.09,563093.75,491682.22,565964.73 "Caffe - Build: CPU AlexNet (ms)",LIB,,,95543,310078, "Caffe - Build: CPU Googlenet (ms)",LIB,,,218330,703141, "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,1511,1258,981,1262,1058 "Stockfish - Total Time (ms)",LIB,2983,2798,2610,3259,2792 "Numpy Benchmark - (Nanoseconds)",LIB,11443829,5060637,4567593,5035916,4567163 "Go Benchmarks - Test: http (Nanoseconds)",LIB,139027,8141,7979,8684,8068 "Go Benchmarks - Test: json (Nanoseconds)",LIB,3822804,3319009,3168639,3428190,3366223 "Go Benchmarks - Test: garbage (Nanoseconds)",LIB,1253764,776592,741258,964720,733990 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Pod2html (seconds)",LIB,0.12246423,,0.10238272,0.11166438,0.10887619 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Interpreter (seconds)",LIB,0.00131081,,0.00062195,0.00148945,0.00195614 "R Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,0.3167,0.2956,0.1454,0.3961,0.3936 "Tensorflow - Build: Cifar10 (sec)",LIB,,,25.49,34.73, "Scikit-Learn - (sec)",LIB,,,11.72,35.20,29.48 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,11.02,12.97,,10.73,13.52 "Gzip Compression - 2GB File Compression (sec)",LIB,10.08,9.08,,9.56,9.50 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,16.52,11.83,12.38,12.42,12.09 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,57.37,47.09,19.73,44.34,46.17 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Streamcluster (sec)",LIB,14.20,14.48,14.24,16.15,14.37 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,3.68,3.28,2.48,3.32,3.16 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding (sec)",LIB,161.77,148.33,143.78,142.87,141.54 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencil (sec)",LIB,11.15,7.76,7.42,8.75,7.30 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,79.61,73.05,70.97,74.53,73.12 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,13.49,9.81,9.06,10.94,10.26 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.02,5.69,5.41,5.69,5.90 "SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,41.32,15.71,12.99,15.92,15.00