Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Performance One Year Later
For some tests like PyBench there was better performance with the newer software stack on this dual Xeon 6980P server.
Long story short, the Intel Xeon 6980P performance on Linux is looking even better now than at launch one year ago.
Of the benchmarks from launch-day that still ran fine on Ubuntu 25.10 with its upgraded compiler toolchain and other updates, the dual Xeon 6980P performance is up by about 8%. It's likely due to a combination of factors from software improvements to now using a production-grade Xeon 6900 series server (Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL) compared to the AvenueCity reference server last year. Plus all of the Linux kernel improvements and other open-source software advancements of the past year.
Now that I once again have a working Intel Xeon 6980P server, I have a number of follow-up articles planned to dive more closely into the different areas like the impact of the Linux software optimizations in 2025 on the Granite Rapids performance. Thanks again to Giga Computing for sending over the R284-A92-AAL 2U server platform for review and enabling this fresh wave of Granite Rapids Linux testing at Phoronix.
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