I've drawn graphs for these measurements. The variation doesn't look random here. TPS is going higher from measurement to measurement. I bet you did measurements sequentially.
I think we should do more measurements until TPS stop growing and beyond to see accumulate average statistics. Could you please do the same tests but 50 runs.
I have taken reading at different client count (1,2 and 4)
1. Avg: Is taken average after discarding lowest 5 and highest 5 readings.
2. With 4 client I have only 30 reading.
Summary:
I think if we check avg or median atleast at 1 or 2 client head always looks winner, but same is not the case with 4 clients. And with 4 clients I can see much more fluctuation in the reading.
Head(1 Client)
Patch (1 Client)
Head (2 Client)
Patch (2 Client)
Head (4 Client)
Patch (4 Client)
Avg:
19628
19578
37180
36536
70044
70731
Median:
19663
19581
37967
37484
73003
75376
Below is all the reading. (Arranged in sorted order)