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 4 of 5. 4 Comments.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: particle_volume/pathtracer/real_time. Clear Linux: EOY 2022 was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu - perf governor: EOY 2022 was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/ao/real_time. Ubuntu - perf governor: EOY 2022 was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. Clear Linux: EOY 2024 was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Decompression Rating. Clear Linux: EOY 2024 was the fastest.

Intel's Clear Linux distribution is still paying off as one of the fastest Linux distributions for x86_64 AVX-512 CPUs whether from Intel or AMD.

PyBench benchmark with settings of Total For Average Test Times. Clear Linux: EOY 2024 was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: go. Ubuntu: EOY 2024 was the fastest.
PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: json_loads. Clear Linux: EOY 2024 was the fastest.

Clear Linux at the end of 2022 was in stronger shape for Python performance due to quickly adopting Python 3.11 while Ubuntu 22.10 was on Python 3.10, but for end of 2024 testing both are close while Ubuntu 24.10 is shipping Python 3.12 and Clear Linux on Python 3.13.

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