A Look At How The AMD EPYC Linux Performance Has Evolved Over The Past Year

While using newer versions of the GCC code compiler tend to be slower due to new optimization passes and features being added, code compilation performance turned out being slightly faster with the latest 2018 stack that encompasses GCC 8.1.

The C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracer was also favoring the latest Linux software components.

As was PBZIP2 performance also being better off on the latest Linux code.

Primesieve meanwhile was another case of the performance moving slightly in the wrong direction.