Ubuntu 18.10 vs. Clear Linux Intel Linux Benchmarks Intel Core i9-9900K testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 18.10: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Clear Linux 25720: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux OS 25720, Kernel: 4.18.15-644.native (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.2, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.0-devel (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 70.45 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 40.20 |============================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 113 |========================== Clear Linux 25720 . 236 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 79.11 |========================== Clear Linux 25720 . 156.53 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 46.88 |======================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 61.03 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 930 |============================= Clear Linux 25720 . 1718 |===================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 624 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 656 |====================================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 221 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 . 242 |====================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 201 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 214 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 450 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 459 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 310 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 336 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 264 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 284 |====================================================== CloverLeaf Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 5.18 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 5.35 |===================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 35.41 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 34.18 |================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 21.54 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 22.58 |==================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 17.58 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 17.49 |==================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 4128 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 4004 |=================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 5677752 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 5539336 |================================================= Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 10980544583 |======================================= Clear Linux 25720 . 12863675786 |============================================== Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 1139166 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 1113916 |================================================= Numpy Benchmark Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 3953449 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 3867404 |================================================= Node.js Express HTTP Load Test Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 10737 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 . 11398 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 3161 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 3300 |===================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 50620 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 53157 |==================================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 25445111 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 26586365 |================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 72.02 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 66.67 |================================================ Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 409 |=========================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 75.25 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 72.71 |================================================== POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 48.79 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 46.74 |================================================== Rust Mandelbrot Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 45.87 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 45.89 |==================================================== Rust Prime Benchmark Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 11.22 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 11.17 |==================================================== Node.js Octane Benchmark Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 54606 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 54905 |==================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 28.27 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 3.01 |====== Cython benchmark 0.27 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 18.59 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 19.17 |==================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 8.20 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 7.72 |================================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 0.09475259 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 0.09327504 |============================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 0.00189695 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 0.00075008 |=================== Zstd Compression Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 107.00 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 27.93 |============= OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 2634 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 2620 |===================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1914659 |======================================================= Tensorflow 2017-02-03 Build: Cifar10 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 41.21 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 41.04 |==================================================== Darktable 2.4.4 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 13.76 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 13.40 |=================================================== GIMP 2.10.6 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 7.34 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 5.26 |====================================== GNU Octave Benchmark 4.4.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 11.77 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 8.11 |==================================== IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Bedroom M samples/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 1.36 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 1.43 |===================================================== IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Supercar M samples/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 3.19 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 3.41 |===================================================== Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 202 |====================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 196 |==================================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 844 |====================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 801 |=================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 802672 |========================================= Clear Linux 25720 . 997134 |=================================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 12.14 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 9.56 |========================================= Chaos Group V-RAY 1.1.0 Mode: CPU Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 74.18 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 71.64 |================================================== BRL-CAD 7.28.0 VGR Performance Metric VGR Performance Metric > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 112674 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 115276 |=================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 24052 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 2519 |===== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 2506 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 967 |==================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Loader ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 1201.00 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 21.10 |= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Firmware ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 5601 |================== Clear Linux 25720 . 16051 |==================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 21546 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 1552 |==== Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 1117884 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 980589 |============================================ Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: High - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 37.03 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 36.87 |==================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 34.74 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 34.66 |==================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 3483 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 3475 |===================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 97.01 |==================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 97.84 |==================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 1011 |===================================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 1020 |===================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 78.93 |==================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 112.77 |=================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiVoxels / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ...... 1263 |===================================== Clear Linux 25720 . 1804 |===================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.3 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 25720 . 1254783 |==================================================