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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS & Fedora 40 Continue To Trail Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations

While Canonical has been investing more into the performance of Ubuntu Linux and engaged some new performance improvements in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it's still not the fastest Linux distribution out there on x86_64 hardware.

Similarly, the recently released Fedora Workstation 40 features the brand new GCC 14 compiler and other leading-edge open-source software packages, but there's still more performance left on the table as shown by Intel. Ubuntu, Fedora, and others have been working to enhance their Linux performance by making recent considerations around x86_64 baselines, engaging compiler optimizations for more packages, and taking other steps that Intel software engineers have been working on for years with their Clear Linux platform. In any event the run is useful for showing the governor difference there and quantifying the impact of the other Intel Linux defaults besides that.

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