Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview With Intel Xeon Scalable

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 29 March 2020 at 05:15 PM EDT. Page 3 of 9. 3 Comments.
Xeon Cascade Lake R Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS
Xeon Cascade Lake R Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS
Xeon Cascade Lake R Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS
Xeon Cascade Lake R Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS

For complex workloads, there can be a lot of extra performance to achieve out of using Ubuntu 20.04 over 18.04 on platforms like Intel Xeon Scalable.

Xeon Cascade Lake R Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS
Xeon Cascade Lake R Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS

Ocassionally there are some slight performance drops.

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