Making The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Run Even Faster - By Loading Up Intel's Clear Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 11 February 2020 at 05:00 PM EST. Page 3 of 9. 29 Comments.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance Benchmarks
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance Benchmarks
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance Benchmarks

CentOS, Fedora Workstation, and Clear Linux were tending to run the fastest on this 64-core / 128-thread processor with the dav1d AV1 video decoder on the CPU.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance Benchmarks
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance Benchmarks
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance Benchmarks

With the Intel Scalable Video Technology open-source video encoders used by the likes of Netflix, Intel's own Clear Linux distribution generally offers the best SVT performance including with this ultra high-end AMD workstation processor.


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