With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS set to be released next month and its final package configuration quickly falling into place, we have begun firing up some benchmarks for seeing how this Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" release is comparing to various other Linux distributions. Up first as part of this series of benchmarks is using an AMD EPYC workstation/server for seeing how the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS performance compares to six other Linux distributions.

This latest Linux distribution benchmarking roundabout on Phoronix was done with an AMD EPYC 7551 32-core / 64-thread processor with the GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0 motherboard, 8 x 4GB DDR4-2666 ECC Registered Memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (albeit not used as part of today's test selection), ASpeed display hardware from the Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard, and 500GB Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD.