Linux Scaling Benchmarks With The AMD Threadripper 2990WX In Various Workloads

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 17 August 2018 at 11:49 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 31 Comments.
Threadripper 2990WX Thread Scaling
Threadripper 2990WX Thread Scaling

IndigoBench was scaling well up through 64 threads on Linux. Understandably going from 32 cores/threads to 64 threads via SMT doesn't provide anything close to a linear increase, but it's still a very sizable increase -- at least under Linux.

Threadripper 2990WX Thread Scaling

In the case pf the NAS Parallel Benchmarks with its embarrassingly parallel synthetic test, it was getting close to linear scaling up to 64 threads.

Threadripper 2990WX Thread Scaling

John The Ripper for crypto benchmarking was scaling quite nicely on Ubuntu with the Linux 4.18 kernel up through 64 threads in its stock configuration.

Threadripper 2990WX Thread Scaling
Threadripper 2990WX Thread Scaling

The chess engine benchmarks also perform quite well.


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