AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 25 April 2024 at 05:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 31 Comments.
ASTC Encoder benchmark with settings of Preset: Medium. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 22.04.4 was the fastest.
ASTC Encoder benchmark with settings of Preset: Very Thorough. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 22.04.4 was the fastest.
ASTC Encoder benchmark with settings of Preset: Exhaustive. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 22.04.4 was the fastest.
libavif avifenc benchmark with settings of Encoder Speed: 0. Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

The performance differences can be more noticeable if you have been relying on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS rather than a more recent interim release and will now (or soon) be upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

uvg266 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Medium. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 22.04.4 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Medium. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 22.04.4 was the fastest.
NAMD benchmark with settings of Input: ATPase with 327,506 Atoms. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
NAMD benchmark with settings of Input: STMV with 1,066,628 Atoms. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 24.04 was the fastest.
GROMACS benchmark with settings of Implementation: MPI CPU, Input: water_GMX50_bare. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 22.04.4 was the fastest.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X continued to typically outperform the Intel Core i9 14900K desktop.

OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Cell Phone Drop Test. Ryzen 9 7950X: Ubuntu 22.04.4 was the fastest.

In some workloads the Intel Core hybrid desktop CPU did benefit in going to Ubuntu 23.10 and newer.


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