{
  "id": 5123346,
  "title": "Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The Horizon",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/early-benchmarks-of-amd-epyc-on-linux-7-3-show-some-performance-gains",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-02T15:53:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-amd-epyc"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a recent performance test conducted by Phoronix, early benchmarks of AMD EPYC on Linux 7.3 have shown promising gains in performance. Linux 7.3-rc1, the latest development kernel for Linux 7.3, was compared to the stable Linux 7.2 kernel to evaluate the impact of new features on server performance. The test was carried out on a 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9455P 48-core server, equipped with a Supermicro H13SSL-N build, 12 x 64GB DDR5-6400 memory, and a Samsung MZWLO3T8HCLS PM1745 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD.\n\nThe primary focus of this testing was on the Btrfs file system, which showed significant performance improvements over Linux 7.2. Other file systems did not experience as substantial an improvement. The testing used an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS installation, with the same GCC 15.2 compiler, kernel configuration, and kernel versions employed for both kernels being tested. By employing a straightforward methodology, the article presents the results of the AMD EPYC server's performance on Linux 7.3, indicating that there are some performance gains on the horizon for this server architecture. Further benchmarks on other hardware are also underway at Phoronix.",
  "summary": "With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it's onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today's article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}