Blender 2.82 vs. 2.81 Benchmark Comparison 2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core testing with a AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1001C BIOS) and llvmpipe 504GB on Ubuntu 19.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Xeon Platinum 8280 2P: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (56 Cores / 112 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 378GB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe 377GB, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.5.0-050500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.7, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.7, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 19.2.4 (LLVM 9.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20200123, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 EPYC 7742 2P: Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core @ 2.25GHz (128 Cores / 256 Threads), Motherboard: AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1001C BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 504GB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA + 256GB Micron_1100_MTFD, Graphics: llvmpipe 504GB, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Mellanox MT27710 OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.5.0-050500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.7, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.7, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 20.1.0-devel (git-35961b1 2020-02-08 eoan-oibaf-ppa) (LLVM 9.0.1 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008 + LLVM 9.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Blender 2.81 Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 38.40 |================================================ EPYC 7742 2P .......... 26.95 |================================== Blender 2.81 Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 100.36 |=============================================== EPYC 7742 2P .......... 47.32 |====================== Blender 2.81 Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 64.72 |================================================ EPYC 7742 2P .......... 44.17 |================================= Blender 2.81 Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 155.30 |=============================================== EPYC 7742 2P .......... 95.26 |============================= Blender 2.81 Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 128.06 |=============================================== EPYC 7742 2P .......... 74.98 |============================ Blender 2.82 Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 38.83 |================================================ EPYC 7742 2P .......... 27.06 |================================= Blender 2.82 Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 100.45 |=============================================== EPYC 7742 2P .......... 47.62 |====================== Blender 2.82 Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 66.71 |================================================ EPYC 7742 2P .......... 45.78 |================================= Blender 2.82 Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 186.93 |=============================================== EPYC 7742 2P .......... 145.56 |===================================== Blender 2.82 Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 128.66 |=============================================== EPYC 7742 2P .......... 75.00 |===========================