CPU PlaidML Linux Benchmarks
Intel Core i9-7980XE testing with a ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS) and NVIDIA NV120 12GB on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Ubuntu 18.10: 

	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: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA NV120 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I219-V

	OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.2, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

openSUSE Tumbleweed: 

	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: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I219-V

	OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20190108, Kernel: 4.19.12-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.3.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Fedora Workstation 29: 

	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: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA NV120 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I219-V

	OS: Fedora 29, Kernel: 4.19.13-300.fc29.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.2, Display Server: X Server + Wayland, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.8, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20181215, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Debian 9.6: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR4-3200MHz Corsair CMK16GX4M4C3200C16, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X, Audio: Realtek Generic, Network: Intel I219-V

	OS: Debian 9.6, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

Antergos 19.1: 

	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: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I219-V

	OS: Antergos Linux 19.1-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.20.0-arch1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.15, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.3.1, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20181127, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Clear Linux 27180: 

	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: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA NV120 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I219-V

	OS: Clear Linux OS 27180, Kernel: 4.19.14-682.native (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.15, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 19.0.0-devel, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.1 + LLVM 7.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

CentOS 7: 

	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: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA NV120 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I219-V

	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, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Training - Network: VGG16 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1.23 |=========================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 1.48 |=================================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 1.27 |==========================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 1.43 |===============================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 1.29 |===========================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 1.39 |==============================================
CentOS 7 .............. 1.48 |=================================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Training - Network: VGG19 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1.00 |========================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 1.21 |=================================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 1.03 |==========================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 1.16 |===============================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 1.05 |===========================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 1.12 |=============================================
CentOS 7 .............. 1.21 |=================================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Inference - Network: VGG16 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 5.73 |=====================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 7.45 |================================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 6.16 |========================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 7.49 |================================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 6.49 |==========================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 7.13 |==============================================
CentOS 7 .............. 7.57 |=================================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Inference - Network: VGG19 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 4.86 |=====================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 6.35 |================================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 5.23 |========================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 6.35 |================================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 5.50 |==========================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 6.06 |==============================================
CentOS 7 .............. 6.42 |=================================================


PlaidML
FP16: Yes - Mode: Inference - Network: VGG16 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 3.93 |=======================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 4.58 |=============================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 4.20 |=========================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 4.88 |================================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 4.36 |===========================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 4.75 |===============================================
CentOS 7 .............. 4.99 |=================================================


PlaidML
FP16: Yes - Mode: Inference - Network: VGG19 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 3.49 |======================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 4.15 |=============================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 3.75 |=========================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 4.40 |================================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 3.91 |===========================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 4.25 |==============================================
CentOS 7 .............. 4.48 |=================================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Training - Network: IMDB LSTM - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 2.17 |===========================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 2.08 |=========================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 2.28 |=============================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 2.24 |============================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 2.10 |=========================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 2.49 |=================================================
CentOS 7 .............. 2.25 |============================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Inference - Network: IMDB LSTM - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 2.52 |==============================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 2.38 |===========================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 2.59 |===============================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 2.53 |==============================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 2.40 |============================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 2.70 |=================================================
CentOS 7 .............. 1.80 |=================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Inference - Network: Mobilenet - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 26.04 |========================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 46.51 |==========================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 30.12 |===========================
Debian 9.6 ............ 52.81 |================================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 30.66 |============================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 51.45 |===============================================
CentOS 7 .............. 51.98 |===============================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Inference - Network: ResNet 50 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 8.24  |==========================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 12.06 |======================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 9.59  |==============================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 15.11 |================================================
CentOS 7 .............. 12.37 |=======================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Inference - Network: DenseNet 201 - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 2.71 |==============================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 2.87 |================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 3.14 |===================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 3.65 |=========================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 3.12 |===================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 4.38 |=================================================
CentOS 7 .............. 3.92 |============================================


PlaidML
FP16: No - Mode: Inference - Network: NASNer Large - Device: CPU
Examples Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.10 .......... 1.16 |========================================
openSUSE Tumbleweed ... 1.41 |=================================================
Fedora Workstation 29 . 1.24 |===========================================
Debian 9.6 ............ 1.35 |===============================================
Antergos 19.1 ......... 1.26 |============================================
Clear Linux 27180 ..... 1.41 |=================================================
CentOS 7 .............. 1.32 |==============================================