Arch Linux vs Manjaro vs Garuda vs EndeavourOS - Speed Test!

hello everybody this is tech hut this is going to be another benchmarking video and this time we're going to be focusing specifically on arch and arch-based linux distributions and this was actually a request by one of you guys and i thought it was a good idea because i did a video about a week ago on garuda linux and a lot of people had a lot to say about it primarily that it is bloat and it is slow so that is going to be one of the distributions that we are going to look at including vanilla arch and the arch that we're going to take a look at is running the 5.11 kernel and the package count is at 755. now i will note i took these screenshots after i installed and kaden live as well as their dependencies so on all of these the initial package count was actually a little bit lower next up on the list is going to be manjaro linux now this is running the 5.10 kernel it has 1144 packages and i do believe this is manjaro 21 but i'll have a link in the description with all the info all the results everything you guys need to know next up we have goruta linux now this is running the 5.10 kernel this one has 1246 packages and one thing you're going to notice is all of these distributions will have the same desktop environment they're running xfce 4.16. lastly we have endeavour os and again this is running the 5.10 kernel and it is shipping with 840 packages out of everything we're going to be looking at this one technically is the one that is closest to vanilla arch and i will note for this i just went ahead and used the kernel version that these distributions shipped with but later on i will do an upgrade of one of the kernels on a distribution just to see if there's any significant performance differences so now that we got all that out of the way we're actually going to do some side by side speed test comparisons but before i do that i just want to say this video is sponsored by you guys this is technically my announcement video for youtube memberships so if you're already subscribed you'll see a little join button on the bottom you go ahead and do that if you want to there's some perks that will come with it such as member only posts eventually adding custom emojis things like that and if you're not interested in giving google money there's also a patreon so you can go ahead and support my content there as well so now with all that said we're actually going to be getting to the first test and that is the hard boot the computer is completely shut down no power in the system and i started the timer on when the button was clicked and plain old vanilla arch came in first place at just above 25 seconds followed closely by manjaro at 26 seconds next up was endeavour os at 31 seconds followed up just by under five seconds garuda linux came in last place at 36 seconds now the boot speed from a completely dead machine is cool and all but something even more important to me is the reboot speed so what i did was i opened up the terminal typed reboot and started the timer as soon as i hit enter and in running this test vanilla arch and manjaro were pretty close manjaro was slightly ahead but they both came in at 27 seconds this was followed up by endeavour os at 34 seconds and garuda linux at 38 seconds so now that we are completely rebooted into the systems i went ahead opened up the terminal again ran h-top so we can compare some of the background processes and the base system ram usage and first up we have arch linux arch was running at 497 megabytes of ram with 54 tasks running in the background and then we had manjaro linux running at 723 megabytes of ram with 72 tasks running in the background now garuda linux was definitely the most hungry when it comes to ram usage at 1.25 gigabytes of ram with 86 tasks running in the background and then finally we have endeavor os this was only about 100 megabytes above vanilla arch at 598 megabytes it also had 61 tasks running so the next test i ran was a simple application launch for this we used now with everything that was just said i was surprised because garuda linux actually opened up the quickest followed closely behind by all the others from there i made a three thousand by three thousand canvas and rendered out the lava texture it's one of the more strenuous processes that's good for benchmarking and in this case we actually have the same results as the application launch with garuda linux coming in first place tailed closely behind by all the other distributions so now for the tests we're going to run i needed to move over some files i had 1.1 gigabytes in benchmarking and video files so i figured i would time it this was done on a standard usb 2.0 so if you're using a usb 3.0 or better hardware these results will probably be much tighter doing this actual file transfer we had vanilla arch coming the lead at 48 seconds followed up closely by manjaro linux at 49 seconds guruda linux was a little behind at 53 seconds and one thing that was surprising to me at least in this case endeavor os came in at one minute and 11 seconds now from there i opened up kaden live and probably did the test that was most important to me i went ahead and dragged over my video file it's about a three minute video i layered them over so two different videos on top of each other the top one i lowered to fifty percent size and put an alpha shaped circle effect over it this is an effect you commonly see in my videos it's how i do the little webcam circle thing up in the top and it's actually a fairly strenuous process to render this out so with all that set up i rendered this out as an mp4 at full quality and at least in this case garuda linux actually came in the lead at 4 minutes and 19 seconds followed up closely by vanilla arch at 4 minutes and 22 seconds and then we had a fairly decent gap because manjaro rendered this out in five minutes followed up by endeavor os at five minutes and nine seconds meaning in my tests there's actually a whole 50 second difference rendering out this project and now this is actually a pretty good time to transition into some of the synthetic benchmarks that i ran and the first one is a video render test this is the x264 render benchmark and it actually measures in frames per second now one thing about these synthetic benchmarks you're going to notice a lot of the results are going to be much tighter and it was true in this case as arch came in at 94 frames manjaro at 92 got rooted linux at 95 and endeavor os at 96. from here we're going to move to straight cpu benchmarks and in this case i ran the build linux kernel the c-ray render and the compressed gzip benchmarks you can see on this graph everything is a very tight compressed gzip across the board was basically a tie the c render was basically a tie across the board and the linux kernel compile would have slightly wider margins but it was still incredibly close this is measured in seconds so the lower the score the better and in this case manjaro was actually the slowest at 98 seconds and vanilla arch was able to compile the linux kernel a little bit quicker at 95 seconds from there i opened up the blender render bmw 27 test and we basically have the same thing going on when everything is incredibly close again this is measured in seconds lower the better we did have manjaro and endeavor about a second quicker than arch and garuda linux but it's essentially a tie and then looking over at the gpu results for this test it's kind of the same situation but in this case we did have endeavor os in the lead followed up closely by arch linux at 286 seconds and then manjaro and good linux were basically a tie now from here we're going to go over to geekbench scores now geekbench does a lot of different tests to kind of give you an overall score for your system in both single and multi-core performance now unlike the other tests on this it's based on points so the higher the score the better and looking at this chart we do see some widening margins but not anything too significant garuda linux did come pretty low on both of the tests compared to the other ones for arch manjaro and endeavor os it was basically a tie at 13.50 but vanilla arch did squeeze in a slight four point advantage looking over at the multi-core scores vanilla arch was in the lead over endeavor os ever so slightly followed up ever so close by manjaro and garuda linux was actually a good number behind at 71.82 now the next benchmark we ran was ram speed test and in this case it was measured in megabytes per second so the higher the score the better and in this case it did range between twenty thousand two hundred and twenty thousand four hundred so it was fairly close basically within the margin of error but if we do want to pick a winner manjaro was actually the fastest while garuda linux showed the lowest ram speeds now to measure gaming performance what i did was open up the u engine valley benchmark this will just run through a couple different graphically intensive scenes and i went ahead and ran this test at 1080p high quality and this was a case of galruda linux actually coming out in the lead at 45.94 followed up closely by endeavour os at 4590 and then in this case vanilla arch linux actually scored the lowest just two points behind manjaro so originally i was going to run all the benchmarks like i just did and then go ahead and upgrade the three other distributions to 5.11 but that proved to be very time consuming and i immediately ran into problems especially in garuda linux trying to use their kernel upgrade tool so i ended up not doing this in every single one doing this in manjaro was actually worked pretty well so i went ahead and re-ran all these benchmarks using manjaro with the 5.11 kernel and i'll just go ahead and put up a table here with all the results we ended up getting and across the board you cannot see that there was significant improvement as a matter of fact in some instances there's actually a decline in performance but for the linux kernel compile the 5.11 kernel was about a half a second quicker c-ray was basically a tie we did get a improvement of three frames per second in our x-264 test ram speed was basically a tie compressed gzip was basically a tie in the valley benchmark there was a slight performance increase and then as far as the geek bench scores there's actually an improvement of six points for single core and an improvement of about 100 points for multi-core performance so overall this does show that there is a slight improvement when it comes to upgrading the kernel but it really doesn't matter unless if you have specific hardware that was actually addressed in the kernel update generally all the numbers we just saw are either within a margin of error or don't really make too much of a difference in actual real-world performance other than the geekbench score did see a good bump so that about wraps up these benchmarks i do hope you enjoyed it and i do hope you learned something ultimately when it comes to system performance you saw some interesting results such as gruden linux scoring pretty rough when it comes to the geekbench scores against the other distributions but at the same time actually having better real-world performance with some of our initial side-by-side testing as far as like base system utilization or bloat it really doesn't matter unless if you have like four gigs of ram or less so unless you absolutely need something lightweight or you just want to build an arch distro because that's what you're used to doing vanilla arch is a really good move it did very well in all of these tests but for those of you who talk smack or don't like manjaro garuda linux or anything like that when it comes to base performance there's just really not that much of a difference and in some cases because of the optimization that some of the teams put in with building these distributions it might actually perform a little bit better at least compared to my personal base arch install which generally was fairly minimal so with that said again i did launch youtube membership so next to the subscribe button down below if you join that that would be absolutely awesome additionally i do have a patreon that you go ahead and check out but if you're not interested in that simply liking this video leaving a comment down below and subscribing so you do not miss future uploads will be more than enough i do hope all of you have a beautiful day if you're interested in checking out more benchmarking videos like this including windows i go over different ones with like all kde plasma desktop running i have a quite a few of them so if you're interested in more benchmarking videos like this i will link to a playlist down below with that said have a beautiful day and good bye

Channel: TechHut

Views: 144,053

Keywords: linux, linux tutorial, desktop enviorment, tech, arch linux, manjaro, speed test, benchmarking, benchmark, best linux, Garuda, Endeavouros

Id: CyVOL1IYKNA

Length: 12min 33sec (753 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 06 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Nx0Sec]

So.. arch vs arch vs arch vs arch?

[u/sqlphilosopher]

Wait...why is Garuda running lts? The whole point of it is that it has performance optimizations, including the zen kernel (and, previously, the tkg kernel). Btw, the high ram usage is explained by its use of zram.