AMD EPYC Is Running Well On Linux 5.1 Too - Performance Wins

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD EPYC Is Running Well On Linux 5.1 Too - Performance Wins

Last week I passed along some initial benchmark results after finding Intel Cascade Lake offering up some performance improvements when using the in-development Linux 5.1 kernel. The exciting news is this doesn't appear to be Cascadelake-specific or even Intel specific as with the Dell PowerEdge EPYC 2P server I am also seeing some nice performance improvements in the same benchmarks...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-EPYC-Linux-5.1-Performance

[Peter Fodrek]

good news but for me is better to see that OpenSuse Tumbleweed started to use UEFI console boot on Ryzen 1500X and Radeon RX550 today

[StandaSK]

Do you think this would impact older CPUs as well, or is it for newer processors only? My old i3-350m laptop hopes it's the former

[torsionbar28]

Wow these gains are fairly significant in a few cases, double-digit percentages even.