Ubuntu 22.10 Bringing Some Performance Uplift For Intel Xeon Scalable
Much of the lead with Clear Linux is due to opting for the "performance" CPU frequency scaling governor by default, the tuned CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS by default in the name of better performance, and also a ton of smaller individual optimizations to different packages from tuning to new patches.
For the most part, CentOS Stream 9 was competing well with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 22.10.