Preview: Benchmarking CentOS 7.0 & Scientific Linux 7.0

The first benchmarks run were some Linux disk benchmarks.

With running six Dbench clients for stressing the disk/file-system, CentOS 7.0 and Scientific Linux 7.0 were running a few percent faster than Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Fedora 20.

With the PostMark disk benchmark, CentOS 7.0 was again the overall leader while Scientific Linux 7.0 was slightly behind and tied with Fedora 20. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was slower than these other Red Hat based distributions.

While most people installing RHEL / CentOS / Scientific aren't going to be playing computer games, a few OpenGL benchmarks were also run to look at the graphics driver stack... CentOS and Scientific Linux 7.0 were slightly behind Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Fedora 20 due to using the older Linux kernel and Mesa releases. However, if graphics are important to you on an Enterprise Linux install, chances are you're going to be installing the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver or AMD Catalyst.

Again, like the OpenArena results, it's not too surprising the open-source Intel Linux OpenGL performance is coming up short of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and updated Fedora 20 due to running on Mesa 9.2 and older Linux kernel code. For Enterprise Linux users that care about OpenGL performance and stability, the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver is the best path.