pure epyc natively running kali KVM testing on Kali 2021.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. epyc zen3: Processor: AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (?-20171121_152543-x86-ol7-builder-01.us.oracle-4.el7.1 BIOS), Memory: 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 14646 MB RAM, Disk: 1602GB BlockVolume, Graphics: bochs-drmdrmfb, Monitor: QEMU Monitor OS: Kali 2021.2, Kernel: 5.10.0-kali9-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.16, Display Server: X Server 1.20.11, Vulkan: 1.0.2, Compiler: GCC 10.2.1 20210110 + Clang 11.0.1-2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050, System Layer: KVM 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better epyc zen3 . 184750 |===========================================================