The Fastest Linux Distribution For Ryzen: A 10-Way Linux OS Comparison On Ryzen 7 & Threadripper

Moving onto more CPU focused tests, the Parboil OpenMP scientific test was the fastest on Clear Linux and Solus 3, which shares some of the performance optimizations of Clear Linux with Solus lead developer Ikey Doherty being a former Intel/Clear developer.

In the MRI Gridding test the margins were closer while Debian Testing and openSUSE Tumbleweed this time were competing for the top spot.

With the Rodinia OpenMP benchmark, Clear Linux was the fastest while CentOS 7 was notably slower with its stock compiler toolchain.

And with HMMer, Clear Linux was again the fastest on these AMD Ryzen systems while Antergos 18.1 was the slowest.