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 Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device a36f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Debian Buster Testing: 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 470/480, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.18.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1 + Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.7 (LLVM 6.0.1), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, 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 |=========================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 41.45 |============================ Debian Buster Testing . 41.81 |============================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 113 |======================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 236 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 169 |==================================== Debian Buster Testing . 166 |=================================== 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 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 165.16 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 166.22 |=============================================== 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 34.50 |=========================== Debian Buster Testing . 57.72 |============================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 930 |=========================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 1718 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 952 |=========================== Debian Buster Testing . 1003 |============================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 624 |============================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 656 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 616 |============================================ Debian Buster Testing . 704 |================================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 221 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 242 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 236 |================================================= Debian Buster Testing . 235 |================================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 201 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 214 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 202 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 196 |============================================== 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 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 446 |================================================= Debian Buster Testing . 444 |================================================ 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 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 317 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 323 |================================================ 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 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 250 |============================================ Debian Buster Testing . 268 |=============================================== CloverLeaf Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 5.18 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 5.35 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 5.39 |================================================= Debian Buster Testing . 5.34 |================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 35.41 |======================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 34.18 |====================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 74.26 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 75.38 |================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 21.54 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 22.58 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 22.42 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 20.81 |============================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 17.58 |============================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 17.49 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 18.57 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 17.45 |============================================= Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 4128 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 4004 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 4151 |================================================= Debian Buster Testing . 4048 |================================================ Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 5677752 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 5539336 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 5696823 |============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 5524366 |============================================= Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 10980544583 |==================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 12863675786 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 11016595822 |==================================== Debian Buster Testing . 10923064536 |==================================== Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1139166 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 1113916 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 1141139 |============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 1121015 |============================================= Numpy Benchmark Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 3953449 |============================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 3867404 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 4024301 |============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 3961531 |============================================= Node.js Express HTTP Load Test Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 10737 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 .. 11398 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 10532 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 3161 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 3300 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 3389 |================================================= Debian Buster Testing . 3359 |================================================= 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 50620 |============================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 53157 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 50182 |============================================= Debian Buster Testing . 53489 |================================================ Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 25445111 |=========================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 26586365 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 25358395 |=========================================== Debian Buster Testing . 26200623 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 72.02 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 66.67 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 68.86 |============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 71.52 |================================================ Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 409 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 415 |================================================== Debian Buster Testing . 404 |================================================= 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 |========================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 84.96 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 75.30 |=========================================== POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 48.79 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 46.74 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 48.23 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 47.27 |=============================================== Rust Mandelbrot Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 45.87 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 45.89 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 45.97 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 45.67 |================================================ Rust Prime Benchmark Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 11.22 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 11.17 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 11.17 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 11.22 |================================================ Node.js Octane Benchmark Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 ....... 54606 |=================================================== Clear Linux 25720 .. 54905 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS . 53799 |================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 28.27 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 3.01 |===== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 29.41 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 28.87 |=============================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 8.20 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 7.72 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 8.32 |================================================= Debian Buster Testing . 7.75 |============================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 0.09475259 |========================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 0.09327504 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 0.09638730 |=========================================== Debian Buster Testing . 0.09509043 |========================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 0.00189695 |============================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 0.00075008 |============ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 0.00082606 |============= Debian Buster Testing . 0.00275126 |=========================================== 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 |============ Debian Buster Testing . 86.39 |====================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 2634 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 2620 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 2640 |================================================= Debian Buster Testing . 2625 |================================================= 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 |======================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 41.49 |========================================= Debian Buster Testing . 49.04 |================================================ GNU Octave Benchmark 4.4.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 11.77 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 8.11 |================================= Debian Buster Testing . 8.85 |==================================== Debian Buster Testing . 8.86 |==================================== IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Bedroom M samples/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1.36 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 1.43 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 1.36 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 1.42 |================================================= IndigoBench 4.0.64 Scene: Supercar M samples/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 3.19 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 3.41 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 3.18 |============================================= Debian Buster Testing . 3.43 |================================================= Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 202 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 196 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 202 |================================================== Debian Buster Testing . 195 |================================================ PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 844 |================================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 801 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 838 |================================================== Debian Buster Testing . 839 |================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 802672 |====================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 997134 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 813134 |====================================== Debian Buster Testing . 797346 |====================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 12.14 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 9.56 |====================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 10.53 |========================================== Debian Buster Testing . 10.73 |========================================== Chaos Group V-RAY 1.1.0 Mode: CPU Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 74.18 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 71.64 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 74.06 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 71.68 |============================================== BRL-CAD 7.28.0 VGR Performance Metric VGR Performance Metric > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 112674 |============================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 115276 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 112075 |============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 112447 |============================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 24052 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 2519 |===== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 12779 |========================== Debian Buster Testing . 3364 |======= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 2506 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 967 |=================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 2455 |================================================ Debian Buster Testing . 1897 |===================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Loader ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1201.00 |================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 21.10 | Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 3476.00 |============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 405.00 |===== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 21546 |================================================ Clear Linux 25720 ..... 1552 |=== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 10324 |======================= Debian Buster Testing . 1467 |=== 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 36.37 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 10.77 |============== 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 13.24 |================== Debian Buster Testing . 32.90 |============================================= ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 3483 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 3475 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 1327 |=================== Debian Buster Testing . 3298 |============================================== 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 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 93.38 |============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 91.61 |============================================= ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1011 |================================================= Clear Linux 25720 ..... 1020 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 973 |=============================================== Debian Buster Testing . 955 |============================================== 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 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 62.67 |========================== Debian Buster Testing . 78.65 |================================= ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 MiVoxels / Sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1263 |================================== Clear Linux 25720 ..... 1804 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS .... 1003 |=========================== Debian Buster Testing . 1258 |==================================