Linux Improvements Boost AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance Since Launch
Thanks to the newer GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and kernel improvements made over the past year and a half, there's been some nice incremental gains to the Threadripper 7970X and 7980X performance since launch.
The power efficiency remains in good shape as with the newer Linux kernel for some of the workloads the Threadripper CPUs were spending less time at the top power state thanks to efficiency improvements with the AMD P-State driver.
These gains aren't quite as significant as we've seen for some other CPU families like with Intel Core hybrid processors, but in any event these are incremental improvements found on still-very-strong Threadripper performance.
For those making use of OpenFOAM for computational fluid dynamics the newer Linux software stack was providing sime time-savings compared to where the performance was at back on launch day. With the upcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series the performance here should be even more compelling thanks in part to the full 512-bit data path for AVX-512.
With the updated software the Threadripper CPU power consumption was slightly lower while delivering better performance -- what we love to see.