Antergos vs. Fedora vs. Ubuntu vs. openSUSE vs. Debian 9 vs. Clear Linux For Early 2017

Clear Linux came out on top for the Perl benchmarks.

openSUSE had some narrow leads with the Blender 3D program when rendering on the CPU.

While ending out these desktop-oriented Linux distribution benchmarks, Clear Linux had a noticeable win with its Python PyBench performance.

That's the results for our start of 2017 Linux distribution benchmarks. Of course, all tests were done out-of-the-box on each OS so with some tweaking you may be able to get your favorite Linux distribution running faster, such as by changing the default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS, changing the CPU scaling driver / governor, making compiler changes, and more. Clear Linux also carries various patches, makes use of function multi-versioning and other features, some of which are less easy to setup trivially on other Linux distributions unless you plan on rebuilding all of your packages. While Intel's Clear Linux had the most number of wins, openSUSE Tumbleweed also deserves a shout-out for its good out-of-the-box performance too with the second most wins.

If you want to see more workstation/server-focused distribution benchmarks, see these EOY2016 results. There is also TrueOS & DragonFlyBSD Performance vs. Linux At The End Of 2016.