Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 29 March 2024 at 10:18 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 3 Comments.
MariaDB mariadb-slap benchmark with settings of Clients: 1024. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 256, Model: ResNet-50. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: NUMA. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Pthread. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Semaphores. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Vector Math. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Context Switching. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: System V Message Passing. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

The Stress-NG kernel micro-benchmarks were showing off some nice improvements when running on Linux 6.9 Git this week.

OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Vehicle Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Vehicle Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection Retail FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection Retail FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Road Segmentation ADAS FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Road Segmentation ADAS FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Machine Translation EN To DE FP16, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Machine Translation EN To DE FP16, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Handwritten English Recognition FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Handwritten English Recognition FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

A real-world area where the AMD EPYC 9684X 2P performance was tending to deliver some nice evolutionary improvements was for the OpenVINO AI toolkit. For reasons yet to be determined/bisected, the AMD EPYC performance for OpenVINO was delivering some better throughput and lower latency with Linux 6.9.

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