Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. openSUSE With An Intel Broadwell Ultrabook

In many of the CPU-bound tests the results weren't too different given they're all using the same CPU scaling driver/governor, the same GCC 4.9 release series, etc.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed seemed to have an advantage when it came to the compile time tests.

You can explore more of these openSUSE Linux benchmark results on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.