Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction - Benchmarks Against Ubuntu 19.10 + Clear Linux

In the OSBench micro-benchmarks were also more indications of slower performance on Fedora 31.

Of 59 benchmarks ran on all of the Linux distributions under test, Clear Linux won 64% of the time followed by Fedora 30 at 25% and Ubuntu 19.10 at 10%. Fedora 31 hadn't secured a single first place finish.

Coming in last place most often was Ubuntu 19.10 at 30% followed by Fedora 31 at 23% and another 36% of the time were Fedora 30.

If looking at the geometric mean, Fedora 30 was the slowest of the Linux distributions benchmarked on this Intel Core i9 system. Ubuntu 19.10 had about 5% higher performance than Fedora 31 while Intel's optimized Clear Linux platform came in at around 20% faster than Fedora 31. Hopefully for the Fedora 32 cycle there will be a better focus on enhancing the performance of Fedora since after all those changes end up working their way eventually into the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. More Fedora 31 tests on other systems are forthcoming but at least so far the results on other hardware has been similar to these initial findings.