AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X & 7970X Linux Performance Benchmarks
For those considering a Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series system for a developer desktop with frequently compiling many large code-bases, both the Threadripper 7970X and 7980X did great jobs and yielded fast compile times. Even the Threadripper 7970X was coming ahead of the Xeon Platinum 8480+.
The Threadripper 7980X could compile the default Linux 6.1 LTS x86_64 kernel in less than a half minute.
The Xeon Max 9480 was consuming the most power during the kernel builds.
Or if going for a full kernel build with all possible kernel modules included as part of the build, the Threadripper 7980X was much faster than the rest with it coming in at 230 seconds while the Xeon Platinum 8480+ was in second place with a one minute longer kernel build.
The AMD EXPO memory above DDR5-5400 wasn't paying off for the heavily threaded kernel builds.