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Benchmarking 11 Linux Distributions Across Dozens Of Workloads On The Intel Core i9 10980XE

For dav1d AV1 decoding, Clear Linux came in just ahead of CentOS 8/Stream, which in turn were much faster than the rest.

Clear Linux was also delivering the fastest video encode performance in a variety of the CPU-based encoding benchmarks thanks to the Intel distribution's aggressive defaults.