Squeezing More Performance Out Of An Intel Celeron "Alder Lake" CPU With A Faster Linux OS

Zstd when measuring the compression performance of the system-provided Zstd binaries saw openSUSE and Clear Linux again come out in front.

For some workloads like the Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 video encoder Clear Linux was faster than the rest thanks to its out-of-the-box compiler flag tuning for modern x86_64 processors.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed was notably strong during this Celeron Alder Lake testing too.

For many of the tested workloads it was a tight race between the Linux distributions on this Celeron dual core system.