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Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 18 May 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT. Page 3 of 8. 9 Comments.

When it came to HPC workloads, this AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X workstation didn't see too much change at large for these compute intensive applications.

But for some applications like Altair's OpenRadioss and OCUDU for software defined radio, Linux 7.1 was showing some modest performance improvements over the older LTS kernels.

In some similar applications like 7-Zip and SVT-JPEG-XS there was also better performance on this Zen 5 desktop out of the newer kernels.