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

C-Ray ray-tracing was the fastest on Clear Linux, Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, and CentOS 7 while the other seven Linux distributions were running slower but at around the same speed.

The FLAC audio encoding results were mostly flat but if counting outright wins/losses, Clear Linux again had the fastest result while CentOS 7 was the slowest.

The FFmpeg results were also close but with Clear, Fedora, and Solus competing for the fastest while Antergos 18.1 was noticeably slower.

With the Hackbench kernel benchmark, Void Linux was substantially slower than all other tested kernel configurations while Antergos and CentOS won the cake this time.