Benchmarking 9 Linux Distributions On A $50 Processor

For Java performance on this budget system, Clear Linux and Manjaro Linux offered the best OpenJDK performance.

Clear Linux also offered noticeably better performance for dav1d AV1 video decoding.

With Intel's Scalable Video Technology AV1 encoder, Clear Linux also offered the fastest encode speed on this 2c/4t processor while Ubuntu 19.10 was the slowest.

CentOS Stream was the fastest for the Stockfish chess engine benchmark.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed picked up a win with Zstd compression performance.