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

When it came to AV1 video decoding with dav1d, Clear Linux and Fedora were delivering much stronger performance than the other distributions.

SVT-AV1 video encoding meanwhile was led by Clear Linux but Fedora was delivering less competitive results here.

Fedora did pop back up behind Clear Linux when the SVT-VP9 video encode performance.

While for x264 and x265, CentOS Stream pulled in behind the lead set by Clear Linux.