yes EE delete. Just did this so REDIS was setup and working.
I didn't test concurrent users or do any in depth testing other than pingdom and webpagetest.org.
Try it with even the 2016 them fresh install of each and see what you get. Obviously you should test with actual project as well. But worked for me. I am getting good speeds on one of my sites https://goo.gl/VQKkbi