Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta Performance Looks Great - Initial RHEL 9 vs. RHEL 10 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC Turin
The Nginx web server was enjoying better performance on RHEL 10.0 beta compared to RHEL 9.5 on this AMD server.
The PHP upgrade on RHEL 10 also means better out-of-the-box PHP performance with the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0.
Even running the proprietary V-RAY renderer on both RHEL9 and RHEL10 was yielding better performance for this EPYC 9655 server on RHEL 10.0 beta with the same binary as RHEL 9.
For some workloads there wasn't any measurable difference out of RHEL 10.0 beta.
Across more than 100 benchmarks run on both RHEL 9.5 and RHEL 10.0 beta from this AMD 5th Gen EPYC Supermicro server, the RHEL 10 beta was on average 10% faster than the current RHEL 9.5 stable release. Depending upon the specific workload the performance benefits varied but with the much newer upstream Linux kernel version, GCC 14 replacing the aging GCC 11 era toolchain by default, and many other package upgrades led to some very nice performance improvements as far as the out-of-the-box Red Hat Enterprise Linux performance is concerned. Other newer server platforms should similarly expect some nice gains too with a RHEL 10 upgrade while more aging server platforms are likely to see less benefits going with RHEL 10 since on RHEL 9 there is already mature support for the older hardware. Expect more RHEL 10 performance benchmarks soon on Phoronix as well as checking in on the AlmaLinux 10 and CentOS Stream 10 server performance and other interesting benchmarks.
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