Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off For AMD EPYC

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 30 December 2024 at 12:30 PM EST. Page 2 of 5. 4 Comments.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Jython. Clear Linux: EOY 2022 was the fastest.

Kicking things off with the OpenJDK Java performance, in some test cases the newer OpenJDK slightly regressed the performance on both Ubuntu and Clear Linux. But Clear Linux was still performing better than Ubuntu 24.10 for the Jython performance, for example, on this dual socket AMD EPYC server.

Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Genetic Algorithm Using Jenetics + Futures. Clear Linux: EOY 2024 was the fastest.

With other Java workloads the latest Linux software stack both on Ubuntu 24.10 and Clear Linux were faster than at the end of 2022... With the Intel-optimized Linux distribution still showing strong performance even for competing AMD servers.

Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 8, Compression Speed. Clear Linux: EOY 2024 was the fastest.
Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 8, Decompression Speed. Clear Linux: EOY 2022 was the fastest.
Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 19, Compression Speed. Clear Linux: EOY 2022 was the fastest.
Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 19, Decompression Speed. Clear Linux: EOY 2022 was the fastest.
Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 19, Long Mode, Decompression Speed. Clear Linux: EOY 2022 was the fastest.

The Zstd compression binary shipped by each respective operating system was still significantly faster on Clear Linux than Ubuntu.

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