FreeBSD vs. Linux Scaling Up To 128 Threads With The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 20 February 2020 at 09:54 AM EST. Page 4 of 5. 37 Comments.
Threadripper 3990X Scaling - FreeBSD 12.1 vs. Linux

With this prime number generator benchmark, CentOS and Ubuntu were in a dead heat for first place while FreeBSD 12.1 was coming out behind.

Threadripper 3990X Scaling - FreeBSD 12.1 vs. Linux

With the Smallpt path tracer, CentOS and Ubuntu again were delivering the best performance over FreeBSD.

Threadripper 3990X Scaling - FreeBSD 12.1 vs. Linux

For M-Queens as a performant N-Queens implementation, the two Linux distributions managed a very narrow lead over FreeBSD 12.1 on the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

Threadripper 3990X Scaling - FreeBSD 12.1 vs. Linux

Under the Tachyon ray-tracer, FreeBSD 12.1 with Clang was slower than the two Linux distributions tested particularly at the lower core counts.


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