AlmaLinux 9, openSUSE Leap 15.4, Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 11.3 & Clear Linux Benchmarks
The Scalable Video Technology (SVT) encoders really crave the "performance" CPU frequency scaling governor and is why AlmaLinux 9.0 and Clear Linux out-of-the-box perform dramatically better here... Still surprising more Linux server distributions aren't defaulting to it.
Those wanting to go through all of the benchmarks in full for this mid-2022 Linux distribution comparison on the Xeon Platinum 8380 2P can find all the raw benchmarks via this OpenBenchmarking.org result page.
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