Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 24 August 2023 at 02:47 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 20 Comments.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.5 Git was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Google Chrome. Linux 6.5 Git was the fastest.

Overall there were consistent improvements found in looking at the Firefox and Chrome Linux web browser performance on Ubuntu Linux with this Zen 4 desktop thanks to Linux 6.5.

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: defconfig. Linux 6.4.11 was the fastest.
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: defconfig. Linux 6.4.11 was the fastest.
Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 19, Compression Speed. Linux 6.5 Git was the fastest.
Zstd Compression benchmark with settings of Compression Level: 19, Decompression Speed. Linux 6.5 Git was the fastest.
SPECFEM3D benchmark with settings of Model: Layered Halfspace. Linux 6.4.11 was the fastest.
OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Bird Strike on Windshield. Linux 6.4.11 was the fastest.
OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Bird Strike on Windshield. Linux 6.4.11 was the fastest.

For workloads fully saturating the CPU straight-away and without much variation in resource usage, you're unlikely to find much of a difference in the out-of-the-box performance on Linux 6.5.


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