Running BSDs On The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series - FreeBSD vs. Linux Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 21 December 2020 at 11:23 AM EST. Page 2 of 4. 32 Comments.
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks

As we are used to seeing, it often comes down to the individual workload for how well it performs on FreeBSD/BSDs relative to Linux.

Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks

Even when using Clang on Ubuntu, for some workloads the performance on FreeBSD still remains a measurable distance behind Linux.

Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks

Or in the opposite case, FreeBSD 12.2 racking up some of its own wins.

Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks
Ryzen 9 5900X FreeBSD 12 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Benchmarks

For some of the I/O benchmarks on Ubuntu, switching from the default EXT4 to the experimental OpenZFS root installation only slows down the performance significantly.


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