According to the latest CPU test conducted by foreign technology media Phoronix, it was found that the performance of AMD’s Ryzen processor on the Linux platform has improved significantly.
Phoronix tested on a System76 Thelio Major workstation pre-installed with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor. This processor has 64 cores and 128 threads. Although it is based on the Zen 2 architecture, its multi-threading capability is still powerful.
The Linux system has greatly optimized the performance of AMD processors in the past three years. Phoronix uses the 2020 Pop!_OS system and the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS stable version for performance testing.
The results show that Vulkan and drivers further optimize the performance of AMD Ryzen processors, and Linux systems optimize APIs to more fully call AMD cores and threads.
Compared to 2020 when the CPU was first released, the AlexNet Vulkan general neural network inference framework (ncnn) benchmark has improved by 444.7%. Meanwhile, other ncnn tests also show close to 175% improvement or almost three times performance boost.
Phoronix performed a total of 135 tests. In terms of the geometric mean of all the results, the new Linux PC was found to be almost 15% faster, which is quite a lot considering there are so many tests.
