Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE, Debian, Clear & Antergos Linux Benchmarks On AMD EPYC

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS could build the kernel in under 30 seconds. The distributions with the older GCC releases tend to be the fastest for code compilation due to newer GCC builds adding in more optimization passes, etc.

OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 with its GCC 4.8 compiler was the fastest at compiling LLVM while Clear Linux with its newest GCC release and aggressive CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS by default leads to the slowest build times.

But Clear Linux was the fastest with the C-Ray ray-tracer due to those aggressive compiler defaults.

As well as with the FLAC and MP3 audio encoding along with FFmpeg video encoding.