Alpine Linux 3.11 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux Intel Core i9-9900KS benchmarking of Alpine Linux 3.11 by Michael Larabel. Ubuntu 19.10: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900KS @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (1302 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.3.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Alpine Linux 3.11: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900KS @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (1302 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Alpine Linux v3.11 3.11.0, Kernel: 4.19.80-0-vanilla (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.20.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.6, Compiler: GCC 9.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Clear Linux 31950: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900KS @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (1302 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Clear Linux OS 31950, Kernel: 5.4.4-880.native (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.0-devel (LLVM 9.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.107, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191218 gcc-9-branch@279482 + Clang 9.0.0 + LLVM 9.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 51847 |================================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 55356 |==================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 54674 |=================================================== ACES DGEMM 1.0 Sustained Floating-Point Rate GFLOP/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 3.666522 |========================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 3.968993 |============================================= Clear Linux 31950 . 4.355695 |================================================= ASKAP 2018-11-10 Test: tConvolve MPI - Gridding Million Grid Points Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 1226.52 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 1217.63 |================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 1185.34 |================================================ ASKAP 2018-11-10 Test: tConvolve MPI - Degridding Million Grid Points Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 1870.65 |================================================ Alpine Linux 3.11 . 1950.00 |================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 1955.97 |================================================== ASKAP 2018-11-10 Test: tConvolve OpenMP - Gridding Million Grid Points Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 1403.82 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 1232.72 |============================================ Clear Linux 31950 . 1257.95 |============================================= ASKAP 2018-11-10 Test: tConvolve OpenMP - Degridding Million Grid Points Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 2200.56 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 2069.54 |=============================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 2075.09 |=============================================== Build2 0.12 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 98.52 |========================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 112.38 |================================================ Clear Linux 31950 . 119.88 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Swirl Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 383 |============================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 420 |=================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 447 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Rotate Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 949 |========================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 1229 |===================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 1094 |=============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 78 |=============================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 136 |====================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 135 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Enhanced Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 197 |=================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 210 |====================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 210 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 944 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 839 |============================================ Clear Linux 31950 . 1004 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Noise-Gaussian Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 242 |================================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 224 |============================================= Clear Linux 31950 . 266 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 1157 |===================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 1676 |===================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 1640 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 4317.13 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 4357.51 |================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 4327.26 |================================================== IOR 3.2.1 Write Test MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 253.07 |=================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 247.43 |================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 251.84 |=================================================== IOR 3.2.1 Read Test MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 686.30 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 673.23 |================================================= Clear Linux 31950 . 706.91 |=================================================== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 2.0.2 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 222.88 |================================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 230.57 |=================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 230.24 |=================================================== miniFE 2.2 Problem Size: Small CG Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 4764.21 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 4609.53 |================================================ Clear Linux 31950 . 4619.79 |================================================ MKL-DNN DNNL 1.1 Harness: Convolution Batch conv_3d - Data Type: f32 ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 23.17 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 24.01 |==================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 23.98 |==================================================== MKL-DNN DNNL 1.1 Harness: Deconvolution Batch deconv_3d - Data Type: f32 ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 6.54175 |================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 6.07416 |============================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 6.27882 |================================================ MKL-DNN DNNL 1.1 Harness: Convolution Batch conv_googlenet_v3 - Data Type: f32 ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 156.29 |=================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 144.18 |=============================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 145.34 |=============================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 46662.87 |======================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 99719.96 |================================================= Clear Linux 31950 . 48750.69 |======================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 815174 |======================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 622697 |============================= Clear Linux 31950 . 1056271 |================================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 871 |============================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 1584 |===================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 853 |============================= SQLite 3.30.1 Threads / Copies: 1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 41.74 |=================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 42.41 |==================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 40.37 |================================================= SQLite Speedtest 3.30 Timed Time - Size 1,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 48.22 |============================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 56.09 |==================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 46.82 |=========================================== SVT-VP9 0.1 Tuning: Visual Quality Optimized - Input: Bosphorus 1080p Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 135.94 |================================================ Alpine Linux 3.11 . 141.16 |================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 143.11 |=================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 4.194 |============================================= Alpine Linux 3.11 . 4.834 |==================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 3.537 |====================================== Y-Cruncher 0.7.8.9503 Calculating 500M Pi Digits Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 19.10 ...... 26.07 |==================================================== Alpine Linux 3.11 . 25.29 |================================================== Clear Linux 31950 . 24.94 |==================================================