The Performance of Ubuntu Linux Over the Past 10 Years (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Friday February 5, 2016 @07:46AM from the so-it's-not-just-new-chips dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Tests were carried out at Phoronix of all Ubuntu Long-Term Support releases from the 6.06 "Dapper Drake" release to 16.04 "Xenial Xerus," looking at the long-term performance of (Ubuntu) Linux using a dual-socket AMD Opteron server. Their benchmarks of Ubuntu's LTS releases over 10 years found that the Radeon graphics performance improved substantially, the disk performance was similar while taking into account the switch from EXT3 to EXT4, and that the CPU performance had overall improved for many workloads thanks to the continued evolution of the GCC compiler.

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Then Start Re-Producing i7-980X's Then. by zenlessyank · 2016-02-05 08:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Or maybe Sandy Bridges. This is like the assholes in govt that made us start driving 55 when we were already going 75+. Always some fuckheads who think some other stupid shit is BETTER. I want SPEED. If I wanted efficient I would buy your $80 buddy boy chips. You just undid 20 years of trust. GO AMD.