Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years
When taking the geometric mean of the dozens of workloads that ran fine on all of the tested Linux kernels (thus excluding the RDNA4 graphics tests), Linux 7.1 is around 13% faster than the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel from late 2023. On this AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation there were very nice gains each step of the way. Testing over last year's Linux 6.18 LTS kernel is already 1.5% faster on a geo mean basis. As shown in the other Phoronix articles, for Linux 7.1 there were nice optimizations benefiting the AMD CPU context switching time on Zen 5 at least, Pogocache and Memcached performance improvements, and other leading-edge optimizations to the Linux kernel.
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