8-Way Spring 2020 Linux Distribution Performance Comparison With 240+ Benchmarks

In total 240 benchmarks successfully were run on each of the eight Linux distributions under test. Coming in first place the most was Clear Linux at 107 wins or 45% of the time followed by openSUSE Tumbleweed at 17% and then CentOS Stream at 10%.

Coming in last place the most was openSUSE Tumbleweed at 23% followed by Ubuntu 20.04 at 16% and then Fedora Workstation at 15%.

If taking the geometric mean of all the tests that ran successfully on all of the Linux distributions, Clear Linux came in first place to no surprise while Debian Testing was the slowest. Coming in second place was Fedora Workstation 32 to which Intel's Clear Linux was about 6% faster. From the slowest to fastest was an 18% performance increase.

Those wanting to go through all of the benchmarks in full (including many results with little change not shown in this article as well as some extra synthetic tests) can find all of the data via OpenBenchmarking.org.