Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements On Ampere Altra Max

Overall Ubuntu 23.10 was showing some nice performance improvements over Ubuntu 22.04 LTS across the range of many different workloads.

In total I ran close to 100 benchmarks. When taking the geometric mean of all the data, moving from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 23.10 increased the performance by about 7%. Moving from Linux 6.5 on Ubuntu 23.10 to Linux 6.7 increased the performance overall by about another 1% with just a few of the benchmarks on this 128-core Ampere Altra Max server showing any significant difference from the kernel upgrade. Also another nice change to see was the idle/minimum CPU power consumption being lower on Ubuntu 23.10 than under Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Overall it's great to see more performance continuing to be squeezed out of Ubuntu Linux on Ampere Altra (Max) hardware. Stay tuned for more Ampere Altra Max testing from this Giga Computing G242-P36 AI/HPC server platform over the coming weeks. It will also be interesting to see the performance of AmpereOne once finally being able to get our hands on some hardware and being able to see some independent performance numbers for that long talked about offering.