Gentoo Kernel Tuning Patch Benchmarks Tests for a future article. ,,"i9-7980XE: Stock","i9-7980XE: Tuned","2700X: Stock","2700X: Tuned","2990WX: Stock","2990WX: Tuned" Processor,,Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core @ 3.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core @ 3.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads) Motherboard,,ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS),ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO (WI-FI) (1001 BIOS),ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO (WI-FI) (1001 BIOS),ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (1601 BIOS),ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (1601 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,32768MB,32768MB Disk,,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB Graphics,,NVIDIA NV120 12GB,NVIDIA NV120 12GB,Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X 4GB (1260/1750MHz),Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X 4GB (1260/1750MHz),AMD Radeon RX 64 8GB (1630/945MHz),AMD Radeon RX 64 8GB (1630/945MHz) Audio,,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,AMD Ellesmere,AMD Ellesmere,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220 Monitor,,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U Network,,Intel I219-V,Intel I219-V,Intel I211 + Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac,Intel I211 + Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac,Intel I211 + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac + Wilocity Wil6200 802.11ad,Intel I211 + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac + Wilocity Wil6200 802.11ad OS,,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10 Kernel,,5.0.0-rc7-stock (x86_64) 20190224,5.0.0-rc7-skylakex (x86_64) 20190224,5.0.0-rc7-stock (x86_64) 20190224,5.0.0-rc7-znver1 (x86_64) 20190224,5.0.0-rc7-stock (x86_64) 20190224,5.0.0-rc7-znver1 (x86_64) 20190224 Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1 Display Server,,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,amdgpu 18.1.0,amdgpu 18.1.0 OpenGL,,4.3 Mesa 18.2.2,4.3 Mesa 18.2.2,4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0) Compiler,,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,2560x1440,2560x1440,2560x1440,2560x1440,3840x2160,3840x2160 ,,"i9-7980XE: Stock","i9-7980XE: Tuned","2700X: Stock","2700X: Tuned","2990WX: Stock","2990WX: Tuned" "SQLite - Timed SQLite Insertions (sec)",LIB,39.57,39.73,36.33,36.40,35.68,36.06 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,7670,7783,8442,8389,7645,7873 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,4782,4847,4860,4876,4594,4649 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,7689,7445,8419,8459,7599,7940 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory (MB/s)",HIB,4726,4749,4796,4792,4449,4688 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,189,190,226,224,234,232 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,113,113,131,103,230,233 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,1466,1525,916,965,1919,2033 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,665,686,525,522,515,502 "Tinymembench - Standard Memcpy (MB/s)",HIB,10298,10358,16689,16704,9715,9700 "Tinymembench - Standard Memset (MB/s)",HIB,28545,28698,12789,12781,12674,12691 "MBW - Test: Memory Copy - Array Size: 4096 MiB (MiB/s)",HIB,10539,10545,16171,16177,14228,16373 "MBW - Test: Memory Copy, Fixed Block Size - Array Size: 4096 MiB (MiB/s)",HIB,9969,10057,9584,9577,8856,9336 "Sockperf - Test: Throughput (Messages/sec)",HIB,303563,304632,510316,559386,550536,586863 "Sockperf - Test: Latency Ping Pong (usec)",LIB,4.60,4.40,4.20,4.25,4.83,4.76 "Sockperf - Test: Latency Under Load (usec)",LIB,36.56,39.68,106.96,106.65,100.07,95.40 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,73.01,72.90,138.03,137.98,92.55,91.62 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,2.38,2.38,3.23,3.28,1.54,1.57 "CloverLeaf - Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics (sec)",LIB,2.43,2.40,5.06,5.03,2.29,2.01 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,20.54,20.25,37.56,37.47,11.87,11.83 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,11.58,11.56,26.89,26.78,9.88,10.37 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Streamcluster (sec)",LIB,13.87,14.18,18.90,18.86,28.74,29.24 "NAMD - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms (days/ns)",LIB,0.98351,0.98252,2.29339,2.29314,0.75270,0.75823 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: H2 (msec)",LIB,6068,5973,3530,3665,4976,4839 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Jython (msec)",LIB,3591,3661,5169,5038,5170,5140 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradesoap (msec)",LIB,4826,4807,5860,5836,6043,5774 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradebeans (msec)",LIB,8812,8741,4392,4409,6624,6587 "LuaJIT - Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1622,1627,1537,1518,1494,1486 "Node.js Express HTTP Load Test - (Reqs/sec)",HIB,9536,9590,8336,8180,7601,7542 "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,708,709,363,364,529,545 "SVT-HEVC - 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,309,310,150,150,184,180 "SVT-VP9 - 1080p 8-bit YUV To VP9 Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,309,315,52.93,52.86,97.88,102.23 "VP9 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc VP9 1080p Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,22.84,22.80,26.60,26.54,26.12,26.51 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,247,247,256,257,237,237 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,3102,3093,1334,1357,1326,1323 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,94645,94958,40730,41000,79608,80068 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,45.70,45.65,86.52,86.91,37.02,36.03 "Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,233,234,527,534,216,227 "C-Ray - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel (sec)",LIB,42.42,42.39,66.11,66.08,20.18,20.18 "Node.js Octane Benchmark - (Score)",HIB,45426,45197,40771,40723,38912,38883 "XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,84.96,85.11,88.86,88.74,102.33,108.74 "Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,10.44,10.44,28.37,28.37,18.03,19.26 "Cython benchmark - (sec)",LIB,20.43,20.45,,,, "Hackbench - Count: 4 - Type: Thread (sec)",LIB,9.08,8.82,14.39,13.96,7.70,7.66 "Hackbench - Count: 8 - Type: Thread (sec)",LIB,20.11,20.79,25.45,23.57,14.41,14.32 "Hackbench - Count: 16 - Type: Thread (sec)",LIB,36.36,35.16,38.75,37.53,26.18,26.00 "Hackbench - Count: 4 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,6.64,6.65,11.45,10.96,6.94,6.91 "Hackbench - Count: 8 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,12.23,13.58,18.13,16.48,12.64,12.31 "Hackbench - Count: 16 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,22.45,23.56,36.86,36.23,23.01,22.78 "Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,43.36,43.27,77.14,77.05,42.28,42.28 "OpenCV Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,79.84,79.70,74.27,73.86,90.41,89.05 "Radiance Benchmark - Test: SMP Parallel (sec)",LIB,239,237,243,241,236,239 "R Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,0.2928,0.2915,,,, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,4689,4690,1702,1705,5825,5828 "Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-sha512 (Iterations/sec)",HIB,1661085,1671601,1256293,1234877,1226948,1217156 "Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,983654,983654,823169,846308,827388,826954 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,472297,469329,189687,191178,285644,424687 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,5449,5470,5711,5350,16866,16903 "GNU Octave Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,17.68,17.65,14.69,14.63,17.62,17.17 "Stress-NG - Test: Crypto (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3575,3578,2208,2209,7563, "Stress-NG - Test: Forking (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,105603,105655,54253,54104,, "Stress-NG - Test: Semaphores (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3023293,3228754,4409946,4389305,, "Stress-NG - Test: Vector Math (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,41008,41002,23616,23718,, "Stress-NG - Test: Socket Activity (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,15571,15637,7399,7715,, "Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,20723337,20720973,3880010,3700685,, "Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,7890690,7743369,11628479,11581693,, "ctx_clock - Context Switch Time (Clocks)",LIB,372,372,185,185,150,150 "Blender - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,116,116,230,230,80.07,80.07 "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,948,949,1129,1131,1151,1151 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,35324,35619,34671,34957,30027,28730 "Apache Siege - Concurrent Users: 10 (Transactions/sec)",HIB,25338,24166,26972,28304,,19833 "Apache Siege - Concurrent Users: 50 (Transactions/sec)",HIB,35305,35384,29026,27389,23874,21815 "Apache Siege - Concurrent Users: 100 (Transactions/sec)",HIB,43448,43840,32145,24877,23654,23139 "Apache Siege - Concurrent Users: 200 (Transactions/sec)",HIB,38182,36038,24403,31160,23277,23088 "Apache Siege - Concurrent Users: 250 (Transactions/sec)",HIB,46175,40011,34025,34231,25236,25333 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,705214,705433,539407,541769,523501,531850 "Git - Time To Complete Common Git Commands (sec)",LIB,5.41,5.40,5.32,5.32,5.48,5.41 "Scikit-Learn - (sec)",LIB,13.60,13.60,14.30,14.18,24.83,25.44 "Sunflow Rendering System - Global Illumination + Image Synthesis (sec)",LIB,1.01,0.98,1.46,1.45,0.91,0.91 "Tesseract OCR - Time To OCR 7 Images (sec)",LIB,26.49,26.37,28.86,28.77,33.82,33.30 "BRL-CAD - VGR Performance Metric (VGR Performance Metric)",HIB,210187,210634,101629,100880,295609,296326 "Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,,981223,846080,844719,822663,825870 "ET: Legacy - Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (FPS)",HIB,,,211,209,181,179 "OpenArena - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (FPS)",HIB,,,271,269,245,238 "OpenArena - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,,,3.66,3.7,4.05,4.22 "Tesseract - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (FPS)",HIB,,,341,339,300,295 "Xonotic - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,,,325,316,203,205 "Xonotic - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,,,258,252,182,182 "ParaView - Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (Frames / Sec)",HIB,,,32.98,33.05,40.62,40.91 "ParaView - Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (MiPolys / Sec)",HIB,,,3306,3314,4073,4102 "ParaView - Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (Frames / Sec)",HIB,,,149,150,152,146 "ParaView - Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (MiVoxels / Sec)",HIB,,,2391,2397,2428,2342 "ParaView - Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (Frames / Sec)",HIB,,,133,133,199,198 "ParaView - Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (MiPolys / Sec)",HIB,,,1387,1384,2076,2059 "GLmark2 - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (Score)",HIB,,,2730,2732,4826,4827