This week marks two years since the debut of the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors. Given the occasion, I decided to revisit the Linux performance of the Threadripper 7980X compared to original benchmarks from November 2023 to see how the latest Linux software stack performs for these Zen 4 HEDT processors.
Today’s benchmarking is a straight-forward comparison of the Threadripper 7980X performance at launch with the Ubuntu 23.10 stack at the time to now how the same hardware is performing with Ubuntu 25.10 and upgrading to the Linux 6.18 development kernel.
The same AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X running at stock speeds was used for testing along with the ASUS Pro WS TRX50 SAGE WIFI motherboard, 4 x 32GB DDR5-4800 memory, and 1TB WD WDS100T1X0E NVMe SSD were used for carrying out a variety of Linux CPU workstation/HPC related benchamrks on this 64-core / 128-thread HEDT processor.
From the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series launch day to now on Ubuntu Linux meant jumping ahead from Linux 6.5 to Linux 6.18 Git (or using Linux 6.17 stable out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 25.10), GCC 13.2 to GCC 15.2, Python 3.11 to Python 3.13, and a variety of other software upgrades over the past two years.
In addition to looking at the raw performance, the CPU power consumption of the Threadripper 7980X was also compared.
