Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 3 August 2026 at 10:42 AM EDT. Page 6 of 9. 21 Comments.
ACES DGEMM benchmark with settings of Sustained Floating-Point Rate. openSUSE Tumbleweed was the fastest.

For HPC and scientific computing workloads, Fedora Workstation 44 again dropped to last place.

GROMACS benchmark with settings of Implementation: MPI CPU, Input: water_GMX50_bare. CachyOS was the fastest.
NAMD benchmark with settings of Input: STMV with 1,066,628 Atoms. openSUSE Tumbleweed was the fastest.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed continued providing nice competition to CachyOS for the out-of-the-box performance in these benchmarks on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 hardware.

Xcompact3d Incompact3d benchmark with settings of Input: Taylor Green Vortices. CachyOS was the fastest.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d benchmark with settings of Input: Turbulent Boundary Layer. CachyOS was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. CachyOS was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Decompression Rating. openSUSE Tumbleweed was the fastest.

Fedora Workstation 44's bizarre performance behavior in some workloads is worth investigating further if/when time allows.

Coremark benchmark with settings of CoreMark Size 666, Iterations Per Second. Fedora Workstation 44 was the fastest.
Coremark benchmark with settings of CoreMark Size 666, Iterations Per Second. Fedora Workstation 44 was the fastest.
Coremark benchmark with settings of CoreMark Size 666, Iterations Per Second. Fedora Workstation 44 was the fastest.

While in some workloads, Fedora Workstation 44 is performing right on par.

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