Power & Performance Tests With Fedora 24 Beta, Linux 4.6 Kernel

First up are some numbers for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with its Core i7 5600U, 8GB RAM, 128GB Samsung SSD configuration.

During some light gaming, the performance really hasn't changed in going from F23 to F24 for the Intel graphics or when moving to the Linux 4.6 kernel.

The system power consumption was also steady during the Xonotic gaming session.

Tesseract yielded similar results to Xonotic for this Broadwell notebook.

The time to compile the Linux kernel increased under Fedora 24. This slowdown is due to using the newer GCC 6 compiler on Fedora 24 compared to GCC 5 with Fedora 23. In all of our tests we've found GCC 6 takes noticeably longer to compile code than under past stable GNU Compiler Collection releases.

There wasn't much of a chance here in power use while the system was busy compiling the kernel.

When running x264 video encoding, Fedora 24 with Linux 4.6 was doing better than Fedora 24 with Linux 4.5.

Lastly for this X1 Carbon testing is the results of the battery power usage over the course of many open-source Linux benchmarks being run on all four Fedora configurations. In the end, the average power use for this Core i7 Broadwell notebook was quite similar between Fedora 23 and the current development state of Fedora 24.