XanMod-ing Ubuntu To Perform Closer To Intel's Clear Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 20 January 2020 at 12:50 PM EST. Page 3 of 6. 23 Comments.
Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux

In workloads like Node.js, the XanMod kernel can help a bit but still didn't tie with Clear Linux.

Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux
Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux
Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux

In cases like SVT-AV1, using Clear's compiler flags on Ubuntu is what's helping a bit here but as shown by the benchmarks it's still not up to matching Clear Linux itself.

Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux

The modifications to Ubuntu did help with the Mozilla DeepSpeech speech-to-text engine.

Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux
Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux
Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux

The Hackbench kernel scheduler benchmark still generally favored Clear Linux.

Core i9 10980XE XanMod vs. Clear Linux

Ubuntu surprisingly won with the Numpy Python benchmark.


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