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 4 of 6. 18 Comments.
OSPray benchmark with settings of Demo: San Miguel, Renderer: SciVis. February 2023 was the fastest.
OSPray benchmark with settings of Demo: XFrog Forest, Renderer: SciVis. 2020 was the fastest.
OSPray benchmark with settings of Demo: NASA Streamlines, Renderer: SciVis. 2020 was the fastest.

In a small portion of the workloads the "2023" performance was slower than the at-launch performance for this Threadripper 3990X workstation.

SVT-HEVC benchmark with settings of 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode. 2020 was the fastest.
SVT-VP9 benchmark with settings of Tuning: PSNR/SSIM Optimized, Input: Bosphorus 1080p. 2020 was the fastest.
SVT-VP9 benchmark with settings of Tuning: Visual Quality Optimized, Input: Bosphorus 1080p. 2020 was the fastest.

The SVT video encoders is one of the areas that is performing more slowly on a modern Linux software stack than in 2020.

x265 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K. 2020 was the fastest.
x265 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p. 2020 was the fastest.

Like SVT, the x265 video encoder was also slower when running on the 2023 Linux software stack.

Timed Apache Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. 2020 was the fastest.
Timed FFmpeg Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. February 2023 was the fastest.
Timed MPlayer Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. 2020 was the fastest.
Timed PHP Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. 2020 was the fastest.

With a three year newer GCC compiler and all of the compiler work in that time, many of the workloads are compiling slower now on GCC 12 than with GCC 9 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Compile times with newer compiler versions are often slower but at the benefit of increased language support and often faster run-time execution.

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