Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 29 July 2025 at 10:10 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 14 Comments.
Across a variety of workloads, Intel's Clear Linux continued running great on AMD hardware up to its very end... Now, unfortunately, discontinued.
For the most heavily threaded and scalable scenarios, the Clear Linux lead was diminished at times due to its default kernel only handling up to 512 threads where as AlmaLinux and Ubuntu accommodated the 768 threads of the dual AMD EPYC 9965 processors. Clear Linux could have easily bumped this higher with their kernel Kconfig just as they did previously when I showcased the low limitation previously on AMD EPYC processors when they then bumped it to 512.
For database workloads Clear Linux was showing great out-of-the-box performance on this AMD 5th Gen EPYC server.