6-Way Linux Distribution Comparison On AMD's Ryzen

First up with the OpenMP-based John The Ripper, Fedora was the slowest while Ubuntu, Debian, Antergos, and openSUSE were competing for first place. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed had the highest score by a very slim lead.

With the timed kernel compilation bechmark, openSUSE Tumbleweed had a noticeable lead over the next fastest distribution, Fedora 25.

With the C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracer, openSUSE Tumbleweed had a very narrow lead while the other distributions with the exception of Clear Linux were all right behind openSUSE's rolling-release. As covered in an earlier article, Intel's Clear Linux does run on AMD's Ryzen but is tuned for Intel CPUs, and thus its performance results aren't as compelling as when run on Intel x86_64 hardware.

The FLAC single-threaded audio encoding results were very close.

The LAME MP3 encoding results were also very close, though just in looking at the numbers, openSUSE Tumbleweed secured another victory.