Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta Benchmarks Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 beta early performance look. CentOS 7.6: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB Force MP510, Graphics: NV120 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.0.5, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 RHEL 8.0 Beta: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB Force MP510, Graphics: NV120 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Beta, Kernel: 4.18.0-32.el8.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server + Wayland, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.2, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180905, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 23.49 |================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 26.48 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 2953 |============================================================ Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 667 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 171000 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 988 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 882 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 226000 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 711 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 627 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 160667 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 990 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 852 |============================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 218000 |========================================================== BlogBench 1.1 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 1947142 |================================================ RHEL 8.0 Beta . 2200776 |====================================================== BlogBench 1.1 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 7470 |================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 12415 |======================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 2.46 |============================================================ Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI-Q Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 6.71 |============================================================ Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 8.18 |============================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 57.23 |======================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 22.32 |====================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 16.79 |======================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 13.29 |============================================ NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 0.98703 |====================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 0.98967 |====================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 18.82 |=========================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 13.21 |======================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 7.99 |================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 2.59 |========================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 2.14 |=============================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 1464835 |====================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 1136093 |========================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 28611 |=========================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 106647000 |======================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 883318 |========================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 2887 |====================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 3045 |========================================================= 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 89530 |======================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 90892 |======================================================== asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 50902482 |===================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 49973802 |==================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 20.89 |=========================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 38.26 |=========================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 41.30 |====================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 60.15 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 42.93 |============================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 52.58 |======================================================== XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 82.39 |=============================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 97.91 |======================================================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 10.43 |======================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 10.70 |======================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 10.35 |======================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 10.23 |======================================================= FFmpeg 4.0.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 13.57 |=========================================================== m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 48.99 |======================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 48.36 |======================================================= Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 0.11768450 |====================================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 0.00188839 |====================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 4680 |========================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 4683 |========================================================= Cryptsetup 2.0.3 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 321386 |========================================================== Cryptsetup PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 320863 |========================================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 2087725 |====================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 1265665 |================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 1554584 |====================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 806945 |============================ Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Forking Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 102994 |======================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 93476 |================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Semaphores Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 265303 |===== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 2780904 |====================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Socket Activity Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 6380 |===================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 9747 |========================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Context Switching Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 6348343 |=================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 9743804 |====================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: System V Message Passing Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 3833057 |======================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 5349839 |====================================================== Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 113.51 |========================================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Add Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 41670 |=========================================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Get Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 69596 |=========================================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Set Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 40598 |=========================================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Replace Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 43555 |=========================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 236168 |======================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 200524 |=============================================== RAR Compression 5.6.1 Linux Source Tree Archiving To RAR Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 149.00 |======================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 73.62 |=========================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 5.53 |================================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 6.41 |========================================================= PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend bench Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 1.17 |========================================= RHEL 8.0 Beta . 1.64 |========================================================= PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend micro_bench Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 5.54 |==================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 8.86 |========================================================= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 45314 |=========================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 937 |============================================================= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Loader ms < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 5774 |============================================================ Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Firmware ms < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 21768 |=========================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 . 44377 |=========================================================== Schbench Message Threads: 8 - Workers Per Message Thread: 2 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 112 |======================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 115 |========================================================== Schbench Message Threads: 8 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better CentOS 7.6 .... 114 |==================================================== RHEL 8.0 Beta . 127 |========================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better RHEL 8.0 Beta . 1360679 |====================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.3 PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better RHEL 8.0 Beta . 658455 |=======================================================