Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 1 October 2026 at 04:57 PM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 8 Comments.
Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Read, Engine: IO_uring, Direct: No, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 1, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Fedora Workstation 45 Beta was the fastest.
Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Read, Engine: IO_uring, Direct: Yes, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 1, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Fedora Workstation 45 Beta was the fastest.
Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Write, Engine: IO_uring, Direct: No, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 1, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Fedora Workstation 45 Beta was the fastest.
Flexible IO Tester benchmark with settings of Type: Random Write, Engine: IO_uring, Direct: Yes, Block Size: 4KB, Job Count: 64, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. Fedora Workstation 45 Beta was the fastest.

With both Fedora releases being on Linux 7.2 and using Btrfs, with FIO I/O benchmarks there wasn't anything exciting to see...

3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080. Fedora Workstation 44 was the fastest.
Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Effects Quality: High. Fedora Workstation 44 was the fastest.
Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Effects Quality: Ultra. Fedora Workstation 44 was the fastest.
GLmark2 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080. Fedora Workstation 44 was the fastest.
GPUScore: Breaking Limit benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Ray-Tracing: On. Fedora Workstation 45 Beta was the fastest.
GPUScore: Breaking Limit benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Ray-Tracing: Off. Fedora Workstation 45 Beta was the fastest.
VKMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Present Mode: Mailbox. Fedora Workstation 45 Beta was the fastest.

And with both Fedora releases being on Mesa 26.2 graphics drivers of RadeonSI and RADV, nothing to get excited about from the Radeon AI PRO R9700 / RDNA4 perspective.

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