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Clear Linux Squeezes More Performance Out Of Intel's Core i9 7960X, 7980XE

Blender meanwhile is only slightly faster with the optimized Clear Linux distribution.

Xsbench has a small but measurable boost in performance with Intel's rolling-release distribution.

With the exception of the i9-7960X, the Apache results were also faster on Clear.

If you wish to see how your own configured Linux system(s) compare to the 1950X / 7900X / 7960XE / 7980X benchmark results in this article, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1709281-TY-CLEARLINU78.

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