Squeezing Extra Performance Out Of The Intel Core i9 10900K With Clear Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 3 June 2020 at 10:20 AM EDT. Page 2 of 7. 6 Comments.

For many of the FIO tests there wasn't much of a difference between the two distributions while Clear Linux uses the BFQ I/O scheduler with NVMe SSDs while Ubuntu (and most other distributions) use none.

Ubuntu was picking up some FIO wins in some of the random write and read scenarios.

While Clear Linux was picking up some wins as well depending upon the particular I/O configuration.

But more interesting are the real-world workloads where Clear Linux tended to quickly jump out in front.

For the Rodinia multi-threaded tests the results were mixed whether Clear Linux was beneficial to the i9-10900K performance.

Likewise for NAMD the performance was the same between these 2020 Linux distributions.

For the NEAT scientific tool, Clear Linux cut down the runtime by a few seconds.

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