CentOS Stream 10 vs. AlmaLinux 10 Beta vs. RHEL 10 Beta Performance Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 27 December 2024 at 10:43 AM EST. Page 2 of 4. 6 Comments.
WireGuard + Linux Networking Stack Stress Test benchmark with settings of . CentOS Stream 10 was the fastest.

For those making use of WireGuard for secure networking purposes, CentOS Stream 10 was performing slightly better than RHEL 10 and AlmaLinux 10 betas that in turn were performing much better than RHEL 9.5.

NAMD benchmark with settings of Input: STMV with 1,066,628 Atoms. RHEL 10.0 Beta was the fastest.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d benchmark with settings of Input: X3D-benchmarking input.i3d. AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Xalan XSLT. RHEL 10.0 Beta was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Lucene Search Index. CentOS Stream 10 was the fastest.
Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Apache Spark ALS. CentOS Stream 10 was the fastest.
Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Apache Spark Bayes. CentOS Stream 10 was the fastest.

For many of the tested workloads there wasn't much change compared to RHEL/AlmaLinux 10 beta releases, which is to be expected given that the software versions for the most part are quite close with CentOS Stream 10 being the upstream to RHEL 10. All three of these "EL 10" Linux distributions though continued performing much better than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 stable release on this AMD EPYC 9005 series server.

GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Swirl. CentOS Stream 10 was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Rotate. AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Resizing. CentOS Stream 10 was the fastest.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 / CentOS Stream 10 and its derivatives are performing very well in general over RHEL9 especially if you are planning to deploy to a server/workstation that is new within the past few years.

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