FreeBSD 15.0 vs. Ubuntu Linux For AMD EPYC Server Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 10 December 2025 at 10:30 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 50 Comments.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Jython. Ubuntu 25.10 - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Eclipse. Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: GraphChi. Ubuntu 25.10 - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Tomcat. Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Xalan XSLT. Ubuntu 25.10 - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Batik SVG Toolkit. Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: H2 Database Engine. Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: PMD Source Code Analyzer. Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Lucene Search Engine. Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Avrora AVR Simulation Framework. Ubuntu 25.10 - Perf Gov was the fastest.

For OpenJDK Java workloads, FreeBSD 15.0 was offering similar performance to Ubuntu Linux. Typically the performance was between Ubuntu out-of-the-box and then the "performance" governor runs of each Ubuntu release.

👁 Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Scala Dotty. FreeBSD 15.0 was the fastest.

👁 Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Savina Reactors.IO. Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Finagle HTTP Requests. Ubuntu 25.10 - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: In-Memory Database Shootout. Ubuntu 25.10 - Perf Gov was the fastest.

👁 Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Akka Unbalanced Cobwebbed Tree. FreeBSD 15.0 was the fastest.

Overall the OpenJDK Java performance on FreeBSD 15.0 for this AMD EPYC 9005 series server was competitive to the modern Ubuntu Linux releases.

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FreeBSD 15.0 vs. Ubuntu Linux For AMD EPYC Server Performance