AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance After Three Years

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 7 February 2023 at 02:30 PM EST. Page 3 of 6. 18 Comments.
SQLite benchmark with settings of Threads / Copies: 8. February 2023 was the fastest.

Even for areas like I/O performance, there have been nice improvements to find running with Ubuntu 23.04 compared to the 20.04 days...

Polyhedron Fortran Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Benchmark: air. February 2023 was the fastest.
Polyhedron Fortran Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Benchmark: tfft2. February 2023 was the fastest.
Polyhedron Fortran Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Benchmark: fatigue2. February 2023 was the fastest.
FFTE benchmark with settings of N=256, 3D Complex FFT Routine. February 2023 was the fastest.
Timed HMMer Search benchmark with settings of Pfam Database Search. 2020 was the fastest.
Monte Carlo Simulations of Ionised Nebulae benchmark with settings of Input: Dust 2D tau100.0. February 2023 was the fastest.
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: 20k Atoms. 2020 was the fastest.
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: Rhodopsin Protein. February 2023 was the fastest.
WebP Image Encode benchmark with settings of Encode Settings: Quality 100, Highest Compression. 2020 was the fastest.

For the CPU-based benchmarks with the Threadripper 3990X, it largely depends upon the particular workloads/code-bases for how well the performance has evolved (or not) since 2020... Some of the workloads have benefited from newer versions of the GCC compiler, Linux kernel optimizations have helped out in some areas, and other software upgrades have helped things along the way too.

BYTE Unix Benchmark benchmark with settings of Computational Test: Dhrystone 2. February 2023 was the fastest.
LuaJIT benchmark with settings of Test: Composite. February 2023 was the fastest.
LuaJIT benchmark with settings of Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply. February 2023 was the fastest.

While the exact benefits vary based upon workload, overall the Threadripper 3990X workstation performance on Linux certainly moved in the right direction over the course of the past three years.


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