Fedora Workstation 33 Performing Very Well - Runs Past Clear Linux On Intel Tiger Lake Notebook

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora Workstation 33 Performing Very Well - Runs Past Clear Linux On Intel Tiger Lake Notebook

Following the recent AMD Zen 3 tests on Intel's Clear Linux a user expressed curiosity over the Intel-backed Linux distribution on Tiger Lake hardware given I hadn't done a multi-distribution comparison there yet. Using the Dell XPS 9310 as my lone Tiger Lake notebook I ran some benchmarks of Clear Linux, Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora. For a change, Clear Linux wasn't the distant front-runner.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=29806

[zephyrhawk]

Wow. Quite impressive for Fedora 33. I am wondering if this performance lead holds for workstation class hardware such as EPYC and Threadripper. Also, what is mainly responsible for this?

[andyprough]

So Fedora is the new king of throttling? Doesn't sound like Fedora got better - sounds like the test laptops got worse.

[qarium]

I use Fedora33 workstation on all my systems-.. and i am happy about this result.

[Mario Junior]

Fedora is based. Sane defaults and just werks! No neckbeard freetardism bullshit.

[spockfish]

I've used openSUSE for more than 10 years. With KDE. I was a real KDE fanboy. Last year I switch to Fedora (just trying it out) and see if I can tune Gnome to fit my workflow. Mean reason: lack of polish on the KDE front.

I have to say: Fedora is one hell of a polished distribution. OpenSUSE is still great (I run it on my servers), but as a workstation Fedora is very well executed.

[milkylainen]

What the heck have they been feeding the hat felt?
Mink grease from Danish farms? Damn.

[torsionbar28]

Glad to see a reasonable display resolution on this laptop. I was half expecting Dell to push something totally braindead like 4k resolution on a 13" screen. "Because XPS!!111" But honestly, a 13" screen is pretty miserable for anything beyond a quickie task, not sure why they bother with high spec XPS models in such a small form factor.

[CommunityMember]

Glad to see a reasonable display resolution on this laptop. I was half expecting Dell to push something totally braindead like 4k resolution on a 13" screen. "Because XPS!!111"

As I recall, the 13" XPS does offer a 4K option for those that want it (and I think the XPS is marketed as a 13.3" screen, which is around 3% bigger!).

But honestly, a 13" screen is pretty miserable for anything beyond a quickie task, not sure why they bother with high spec XPS models in such a small form factor

Because not everyone wants a new messenger bag to haul around a larger laptop as they ride their bicycle to the next gig, but still have a need for a high-spec model?

Because everywhere the owner goes they can plug into a larger monitor, so it is really about the portability of the laptop, and watching videos of cats while on the train?

Ultimately, I am sure Dell knows what sells, and builds to that market. That some people may over or under buy is not Dell's problem.

[northish]

I was surprised to see that Fedora 33 won, even though it was the only OS running Btrfs (vs. ext4). Btrfs has a number of good features, but there's a cost for COW, which usually shows up in benchmarks. Perhaps the other lmits that Michael mentions, especially thermal throttling, make this less important on a laptop.