8-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks On The Intel Core i9 9900K - One Distro Wins 67% Of The Time
With the Stockfish chess engine, openSUSE Tumbleweed secured a very narrow victory.
Compiling the Linux kernel on CentOS 7 was the fastest due to its older GCC compiler stack with having less optimization passes, etc, compared to the newer and more complex compiler code.
Ubuntu 18.04's performance was a noticeable outlier in the C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracing.
For those with lots of Perl scripts, Clear Linux continues to run surprisingly fast.