Intel Xeon Max / Sapphire Rapids Riding Higher On Ubuntu 23.10

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 October 2023 at 03:26 PM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 8 Comments.

Memcached benchmark with settings of Set To Get Ratio: 1:10. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Memcached benchmark with settings of Set To Get Ratio: 1:100. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Memcached really goes wild on Ubuntu 23.10 thanks to the upgraded kernel with optimizations contributed by Intel to the mainline kernel.

TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.

TensorFlow benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 256, Model: ResNet-50. Ubuntu 22.04 was the fastest.

TensorFlow was one of the few workloads performing slightly lower on Ubuntu 23.10.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

The Blender 3D modeling software was showing some measurable time savings on this Xeon Max server with Ubuntu 23.10.

RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Random Read. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Read Random Write Random. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

RocksDB was enjoying better performance on Ubuntu 23.10.

PyBench benchmark with settings of Total For Average Test Times. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.

PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: go. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: raytrace. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.

PyPerformance benchmark with settings of Benchmark: json_loads. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Ubuntu 23.04 enjoyed much better performance when pulling in Python 3.11, which Ubuntu 23.10 is sticking with for this release due to Python 3.12 only recently having debuted.

nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 500. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Overall, Ubuntu 23.10 is looking to be in very good shape for the dual Intel Xeon Max 9480 Supermicro server and more broadly for other Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids server configurations tested thus far. Even if you don't plan to transition to Ubuntu 23.10 due to it not being a Long-Term Support release, at least this is a taste of what's to come with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS next spring -- and hopefully with even more performance improvements in that next Ubuntu cycle. We already know Linux 6.6 will bring some benefits for Xeon Max on top of what's found with Linux 6.5 in Ubuntu 23.10.

Coming up next will be seeing how Ubuntu 23.10 compares to Clear Linux, Fedora 39, and other recent Linux distributions on this Xeon Max server.

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