Fedora 38 Beta Performance Mostly Flat, Few Regressions

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 28 March 2023 at 01:00 PM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 10 Comments.

GROMACS benchmark with settings of Implementation: MPI CPU, Input: water_GMX50_bare. Ryzen 9 7950X: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Boat, Acceleration: CPU-only. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Masskrug, Acceleration: CPU-only. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: resize. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: rotate. Ryzen 9 7950X: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

LibreOffice benchmark with settings of Test: 20 Documents To PDF. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

RawTherapee benchmark with settings of Total Benchmark Time. Ryzen 9 7950X: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: CPU-Only. Ryzen 9 7950X: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: CPU-Only. Ryzen 9 7950X: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

PyBench benchmark with settings of Total For Average Test Times. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 9 7950X: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Firefox. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Speedometer, Browser: Firefox. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: PSPDFKit WASM, Browser: Firefox. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: WASM collisionDetection, Browser: Firefox. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 38 Beta was the fastest.

Aside from the odd graphics/gaming performance regression on Fedora 38 only affecting the AMD Ryzen system and then the slower build times on Fedora 38, for the rest of the workloads the performance was basically flat compared to Fedora 37 on both the Intel Raptor Lake and AMD Zen 4 desktops. Not too surprising though considering Fedora 37 with stable release updates is on Linux 6.1+ and other recent versions of key packages while GCC 13 didn't have any groundbreaking performance optimizations affecting these processors under test.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Fedora 38 Beta vs. Fedora 37 Linux Benchmarks. Core i9 13900K: Fedora 37 was the fastest.

Taking the geometric mean of the 137 tests carried out on both the Intel Core i9 13900K and Ryzen 9 7950X systems showed the basically flat results over Fedora 37. Aside from the performance, Fedora 38 is preparing many other improvements like all of the GNOME 44 desktop enhancements with many of them having been worked on upstream by Red Hat, the latest XWayland and other package updates, font updates, and more.

The official Fedora 38 release is expected to be out by the end of April.

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