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, "Go Benchmarks - Test: http", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",138936,138709,139435 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",8127,8116,8180 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",8067,7823,8048 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",8675,8692,8686 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",7981,8118,8106 "Go Benchmarks - Test: json", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",3815716,3824881,3827815 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",3315902,3320278,3320846 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",3166548,3171756,3167612 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",3432472,3427665,3424434 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",3368483,3365937,3364249 "Go Benchmarks - Test: garbage", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",1254517,1257351,1249424 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",775969,776811,776996 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",740114,742584,741075 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",965251,966915,961993 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",736309,731506,734154 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",278.61,285.26,287.1 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",508.56,533.03,520.83 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",805.49,839.93,846.29 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",676.34,668.67,673.54 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",739.53,653.82,752.89,742.06,791.14,760.73 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",1389.99,1406.19,1443.24 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",1532.48,1567.77,1606.72 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",2429.29,2623.91,2556.85 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",1618.65,1699.06,1710.61 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",1708.71,1710.52,1785.17 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",6.0140821933746,6.0182371139526,6.0127079486847,6.0248689651489,6.0531988143921 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",5.7264518737793,5.6933181285858,5.6941838264465,5.6710429191589,5.6779370307922 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",5.1534888744354,5.1214599609375,5.1562540531158,5.164342880249,6.5571999549866,5.0923790931702,5.1016879081726,5.0896310806274,5.1915988922119,6.4422709941864 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",5.7341389656067,5.8025839328766,5.7363860607147,5.7515099048615,5.4165389537811 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",5.4753351211548,5.4678089618683,7.1119270324707,5.9244818687439,5.4613330364227,5.4895379543304,5.4894421100616,7.2533419132233,5.8284521102905,5.4738171100616 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",30.863219022751,11.566611051559,11.566702127457,11.56524181366,11.563313961029,11.569063901901,11.563102960587,11.570317983627,11.554951190948,11.555065155029 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",9.8369200229645,9.8215119838715,9.8031539916992,9.7999148368835,9.8089098930359 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",9.0427401065826,9.0735099315643,9.0646638870239,9.0444419384003,9.0540471076965 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",10.606745004654,10.748291969299,10.77023100853,10.593439817429,11.53754401207,11.472193956375,11.031534910202,10.751221895218 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",11.592462062836,9.4414639472961,9.363196849823,11.542259931564,9.4268760681152,9.3702208995819,11.545011997223,9.4851751327515,9.3691120147705,11.484565019608 "FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",106.4,212,157.6,254.1,256.2,256 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",364.8,392,232.5,244.5,232.4,239.7 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",254.2,258.2,255.9 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",330.5,236.6,357.5,383,381.4,376 "FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",309.7,492,504.4,415.5,513.4,509 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",1004.8,1046.8,1194.8,732.4,1245.6,1068.4 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",658,791.6,868.4,594,851.9,823.6 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",255.6,580.5,816.8,818.4,774,776 "FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",252.3,148.8,258,248.6,254,179.4 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",501.3,511,614,618,617.6,511.2 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",278.3,314.3,314,313.9,314.1,317.9 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",266.7,292.3,294.3,299.5,296.1,265.2 "Tensorflow 2017-02-03 - Build: Cifar10", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",24.29,26.8,25.48,25.42,25.44 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",34.66,34.78,34.75 "Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 - ", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",11.24039888382,12.636760950089,11.31449508667,11.254514932632,12.593989133835,11.263450860977 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",34.932296037674,35.4478058815,35.207054853439 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",29.419317007065,29.527009010315,29.500147819519 "R Benchmark - ", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",0.31624685419554,0.31835151667865,0.3153957433105 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",0.29206993075522,0.30022156038941,0.29453556321074 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",0.14464128140673,0.14685182588345,0.14457054782383 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",0.39517353008532,0.40267463439053,0.39045428094814 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",0.39510521245214,0.40577713891437,0.37353013616385,0.40254925525243,0.37226743520073,0.41246731700082 "Numpy Benchmark - ", Lower Results Are Better "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", "Caffe 2016-12-29 - Build: CPU AlexNet", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",95252,95938,95439 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",309857,310307,310070 "Caffe 2016-12-29 - Build: CPU Googlenet", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",217455,217914,219621 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",703474,701855,704095 "Parboil 2.5 - Test: OpenMP CUTCP", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",3.724805,3.680104,3.622791 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",3.272964,3.299695,3.278479 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",2.501929,2.470361,2.468658 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",3.325061,3.321437,3.318079 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",3.146158,3.164803,3.172122 "Parboil 2.5 - Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",164.176559,161.570297,159.558044 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",148.683609,149.161255,147.156937 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",141.857285,145.687637,143.785858 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",143.526611,142.639542,142.453964 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",140.652313,141.244904,142.73111 "Parboil 2.5 - Test: OpenMP Stencil", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",11.717505,10.930653,10.971015,10.987539 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",7.750255,7.750505,7.780062 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",7.421131,7.441437,7.40618 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",8.833518,8.641092,8.789928 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",7.1996,7.309048,7.399163 "Parboil 2.5 - Test: OpenMP LBM", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",79.686661,77.497681,81.64624 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",72.950249,73.135674,73.053421 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",70.798988,70.890465,71.231636 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",74.742859,74.764626,74.071915 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",72.609756,74.115242,72.640617 "Rodinia 2.4 - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",17.631503105164,16.358477830887,16.307940006256,16.235356092453,16.282757043839,16.31513094902 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",11.83274102211,11.797424793243,11.868753910065 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",12.995106935501,11.796229839325,13.090867042542,11.706340074539,11.854155063629,12.825779914856 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",12.643618106842,12.413483142853,12.217079162598 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",12.718398094177,11.42329287529,12.759382963181,11.444418907166,11.434834957123,12.78315114975 "Rodinia 2.4 - Test: OpenMP LavaMD", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",57.423896074295,57.316119909286,57.367540121078 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",47.282735824585,47.087433099747,46.885591030121 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",20.177428007126,18.84232211113,20.182884931564,18.838738918304,20.186147928238,20.171883821487 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",44.23760509491,44.256000041962,44.536223173141 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",45.931168079376,47.200357913971,45.380465984344 "Rodinia 2.4 - Test: OpenMP Streamcluster", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",14.062601089478,14.297595977783,14.239713907242 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",14.216617822647,15.057559967041,14.174858093262 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",13.254095077515,14.610286951065,14.200226068497,14.621511936188,14.190773010254,14.557212114334 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",16.480556964874,15.962578058243,16.010918855667 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",14.928657054901,13.51785993576,14.905045986176,13.567432880402,14.9245429039,14.368769884109 "Stockfish 2014-11-26 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",2991,3005,2953 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",2846,2786,2761 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",2675,2579,2575 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",3262,3237,3277 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",2744,2874,2758 "John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",29548,29548,29576 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",30153,30093,30136 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",29791,29851,29791 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",28584,27377,28972 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",31257,31406,31343 "asmFish 2017-09-19 - 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",53628774,54169378,53248808 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",54116557,54874987,52261139 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",56340459,56473859,54800576 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",52613232,53553397,53642391 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",57055211,56520232,55691828 "x264 2017-09-08 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",359.65,362.18,357.66 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",321.3,321.6,314.89 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",241.52,523.45,518.29,531.6,522.61,511.56 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",337.1,345.82,337.63 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",333.67,329.53,190.77,318.23,340.16,339.76 "FFmpeg 3.3.3 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",10.933760166168,11.083503961563,11.056275844574 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",12.98569893837,12.885995149612,13.027944087982 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",10.739142894745,10.701753854752,10.73494720459 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",12.834403991699,14.236035108566,12.924623966217,14.250597000122,12.845270872116,14.030673980713 "PHPBench 0.8.1 - PHP Benchmark Suite", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",184316,185032,183156 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",764500,720017,691965,707095,723884,723695 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",370919,370750,370731 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",618158,576238,630990,599197,631852,593032 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: SET", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",90081.98,91768.38,91332.54 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",2207505.5,2070393.38,2049180.25,2061855.62,2183406,2150537.5 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",2695417.75,2673796.75,2673796.75 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",108672.03,108861.31,108695.66 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",2150537.5,1941747.62,2352941,2352941,2114165,2375297 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: GET", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",91382.62,90057.63,90596.12 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",2427184.5,2617801,2666666.75,2695417.75,2680965.25,2710027.25 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",3546099.25,3558719,3558719 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",108802.09,108825.77,108672.03 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",2551020.5,2898550.75,2695417.75,2380952.5,2923976.5,2873563.25 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: LPUSH", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",90522.31,91399.32,91307.52 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",2070393.38,2083333.38,2169197.5 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",2604166.75,2570694,2652519.75 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",108802.09,108719.29,108695.66 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",2145922.75,2252252.25,1992032,2242152.5,2272727.25,2036659.88 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: LPOP", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",90546.91,91265.86,89726.33 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",2257336.5,2309468.75,2217295 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",3012048.25,3003003,2994012 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",108613.02,108601.21,108932.46 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",2551020.5,2242152.5,2463054.25,2525252.5,2433090,2493765.75 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: SADD", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",90942.16,90179.46,91516.43 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",2392344.5,2369668.25,2375297 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",3003003,3003003,3012048.25 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",108766.59,109039.37,108695.66 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",2386634.75,2631579,2570694,2380952.5,2398081.5,2557544.75 "SQLite 3.8.10.2 - Test Target: Default Test Directory", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",40.887199878693,41.539105892181,41.532502889633 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",15.709033966064,15.93484210968,15.487905025482 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",8.7347359657288,8.6875729560852,10.047436952591,14.883234024048,18.473160028458,17.135251998901 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",15.986285924911,15.761804819107,16.01789522171 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",15.414977073669,14.241394042969,15.501950025558,14.307729959488,16.016136169434,14.522380113602 "PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",7267.594702,7613.610811,7393.412239 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",17555.888223,10690.900332,6200.38124,6715.518338,6416.947737,6766.013698 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",27216.627438,16408.418378,9435.720699,9548.627548,9776.760677,26290.078956 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",16156.740783,10887.286487,6778.273922,7141.901068,7106.133586,7105.766728 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",13107.593816,7237.608236,6790.130496,7182.022381,6519.503633,13545.195232 "PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only", Higher Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",48310.938618,48193.958916,48353.436857 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",547116.702975,537037.074397,541696.489194 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",558103.455458,565483.453592,565694.34388 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",491933.355273,489770.8153,493342.481241 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",565989.898148,569981.913821,561922.37762 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Pod2html", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",0.1218834406746,0.12287026051587,0.12263898273809 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",0.10184694250541,0.10290675703463,0.10239446401515 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",0.12546066428571,0.1051773327381,0.11275415,0.10346042678571,0.10966188214286,0.11347181428571 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",0.10964808671537,0.10973839745671,0.10724209285714 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Interpreter", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",0.0013343057249322,0.0013602789176505,0.0012659114266717,0.0012603911311566,0.0013772488678343,0.0012667299735111 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",0.00063053480099221,0.00061835356054007,0.00061696409993006 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",0.0015496926660296,0.0014328813386041,0.001626492342615,0.0015970296581302,0.0012395231744421,0.0014910815423514 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",0.0019724215911217,0.0019261239658025,0.0019698620156426 "Gzip Compression - 2GB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",10.289134025574,9.8919930458069,10.044678926468 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",9.0938510894775,9.1087110042572,9.0238227844238 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",9.6112129688263,9.7809910774231,9.2916147708893 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",8.795040845871,9.0250730514526,10.993173837662,8.9329299926758,8.6731090545654,10.557088851929 "PyBench 2008-08-14 - Total For Average Test Times", Lower Results Are Better "i9-7980XE: CentOS 7",1508,1509,1517 "i9-7980XE: Fedora 27",1294,1240,1241 "i9-7980XE: Clear Linux 19110",985,980,979 "i9-7980XE: Debian 9.2",1261,1264,1260 "i9-7980XE: Ubuntu 18.04 11-17",1057,1055,1062