Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 29 March 2024 at 10:18 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 3 Comments.
Quicksilver benchmark with settings of Input: CORAL2 P1. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Quicksilver benchmark with settings of Input: CORAL2 P2. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
NAMD benchmark with settings of Input: ATPase with 327,506 Atoms. Linux 6.8 was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 4, Input: Bosphorus 4K. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 12, Input: Bosphorus 4K. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

There weren't across-the-board performance gains to note for the AMD EPYC Genoa-X server on Linux 6.9 but for a number of workloads the results were either flat or just ever so slightly faster than Linux 6.8 stable.

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: allmodconfig. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Timed LLVM Compilation benchmark with settings of Build System: Ninja. Linux 6.8 was the fastest.

But with the AMD EPYC 9004 series performance already so strong and on top of various kernel optimizations in recent releases, the AMD EPYC 4th Gen performance remains in premiere shape for Linux HPC/server use.

Hackbench benchmark with settings of Count: 32, Type: Process. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

The Hackbench scheduler benchmark was one of the synthetics showing off slightly better performance on Linux 6.9 across various configurations.


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