Talos II Linux Distro Compare POWER9 testing with a PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01 and ASPEED Family on Debian 9.7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ubuntu 18.10: Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-13-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Debian 9.7: Processor: POWER9 @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe OS: Debian 9.7, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-powerpc64le (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1065179 |======================== Debian 9.7 ... 2452419 |======================================================= Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 3809988 |================================== Debian 9.7 ... 6246160 |======================================================= Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 27979103980 |=================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 24773422333 |============================================= Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1088719 |=========================== Debian 9.7 ... 2201595 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 2548 |========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 1851 |========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 346 |=========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 231 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1907 |========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 744 |======================= Hackbench Count: 16 - Type: Thread Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 14.59 |============== Debian 9.7 ... 60.80 |========================================================= Hackbench Count: 16 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 12.62 |========================================================= Hackbench Count: 32 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 24.13 |========================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Crypto Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 8324 |========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 7637 |===================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Bsearch Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 18076 |========================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 18212 |========================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Forking Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 60627 |========================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 38895 |===================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Hsearch Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 197526 |======================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 188878 |====================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Lsearch Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 388 |=========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 313 |================================================ Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Tsearch Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 900 |=========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 558 |===================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: CPU Stress Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 12389 |========================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 11838 |====================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Semaphores Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 460662 |======================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 431621 |==================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Matrix Math Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 111641 |==================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 121201 |======================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Vector Math Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 88683 |========================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 86260 |======================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Memory Copying Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 8386 |========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 5449 |====================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Socket Activity Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 28493 |=================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 31688 |========================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Context Switching Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 11877474 |====================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 8071747 |===================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Glibc C String Functions Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1382143 |===================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 1438119 |======================================================= Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: Glibc Qsort Data Sorting Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 368 |==================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 416 |=========================================================== Stress-NG 0.07.26 Test: System V Message Passing Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 6950681 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 5304773 |========================================== Cryptsetup PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 436421 |======================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 193893 |========================= Cryptsetup 1.7.3 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.7 . 288704 |========================================================== Debian 9.7 . 289556 |========================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 817072 |======================================================== Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9.7 . 193893 |========================================================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: H2 msec < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 6369 |============================================== Debian 9.7 ... 8076 |========================================================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: Jython msec < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 7149 |================================= Debian 9.7 ... 12271 |========================================================= DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: Tradebeans msec < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 50192 |========================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 7625 |========= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 44.57 |============================================== Debian 9.7 ... 54.72 |========================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 74.07 |=============================================== Debian 9.7 ... 89.16 |========================================================= Tesseract OCR 4.0.0-beta.3-249-g607e Time To OCR 7 Images Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 47.54 |========================================================= BRL-CAD 7.28.0 VGR Performance Metric VGR Performance Metric > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1299155 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 1118520 |=============================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.7 . 13.43 |======================================== Debian 9.7 . 20.04 |=========================================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: rotate Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.7 . 29.60 |============================================== Debian 9.7 . 38.09 |=========================================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.7 . 29.56 |====================================================== Debian 9.7 . 32.19 |=========================================================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9.7 . 58.58 |=================================================== Debian 9.7 . 67.78 |=========================================================== GIMP 2.10.6 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 17.87 |========================================================= GIMP 2.10.6 Test: rotate Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 29.88 |========================================================= GIMP 2.10.6 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 42.58 |========================================================= GIMP 2.10.6 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 58.87 |========================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 94.74 |=========================== Debian 9.7 ... 197.63 |======================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 168 |=========================================== Debian 9.7 ... 231 |=========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 72.19 |=========================== Debian 9.7 ... 152.27 |======================================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 27.11 |================================== Debian 9.7 ... 46.07 |========================================================= Numpy Benchmark Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 9732182 |========================================= Debian 9.7 ... 12915294 |====================================================== GNU Octave Benchmark 4.4.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 17.31 |========================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 17.08 |===================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 18.36 |========================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 12.88 |================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 14.78 |========================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 28.63 |================================================ Debian 9.7 ... 34.19 |========================================================= Aircrack-ng 1.3 k/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 47464 |=============================================== Debian 9.7 ... 57411 |========================================================= Primesieve 7.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 17.13 |========================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 17.04 |========================================================= Rust Prime Benchmark Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 3.47 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 3.67 |========================================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 82668356 |====================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 80389392 |===================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 158412 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 160495 |======================================================== Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 174 |===================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 192 |=========================================================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 11.59 |====================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 12.15 |========================================================= Rust Mandelbrot Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 69.04 |================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 80.41 |========================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 50.59 |================================================ Debian 9.7 ... 60.17 |========================================================= x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 46.18 |================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 52.55 |========================================================= dav1d 0.1 Video Input: Summer Nature 4K Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 117.76 |======================================================== dav1d 0.1 Video Input: Summer Nature 1080p Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 35.65 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 18.10 |========================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 18.21 |========================================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 722 |=========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 399 |================================= POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 21.69 |================================ Debian 9.7 ... 39.13 |========================================================= Blender 2.79 Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 244 |=========================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 4.02 |====================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 4.32 |========================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 6053 |======== Debian 9.7 ... 43550 |========================================================= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 3425 |========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 1586 |=========================== Node.js Express HTTP Load Test Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 6096 |========================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 9478 |============ Debian 9.7 ... 45136 |========================================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 321400 |======================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 222729 |======================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: LPOP Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1805117 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 939884 |============================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: SADD Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1302667 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 689501 |============================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1644811 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 904865 |============================== Blender 2.79 Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 473 |=========================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 7433 |========================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 7311 |========================================================= Blender 2.79 Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 195.26 |======================================================== Blender 2.79 Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 332 |=========================================================== Blender 2.79 Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 111 |======================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 117 |=========================================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: LPUSH Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 872264 |======================================================== Debian 9.7 ... 511951 |================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1059395 |======================================================= Debian 9.7 ... 601732 |=============================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 578403 |======================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 6014 |========================================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 0.19238211 |======================================== Debian 9.7 ... 0.24789679 |==================================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 0.00131191 |=========================== Debian 9.7 ... 0.00257072 |==================================================== Node.js Octane Benchmark Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 21634 |========================================================= PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.10 . 1819 |=================================== Debian 9.7 ... 3031 |==========================================================