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What is the fastest CPU for GNU/Linux?

April 26, 2017CPU fastest GNU linux

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What is the fastest CPU for GNU/Linux?

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• (REW, ADB) The CPU field is very active in terms of technological developments. New CPU models, new architectures, new manufacturing technologies keep pushing the state of the art. WRT GNU/Linux, it is a general consensus that Alpha machines usually provide the best floating point performance, when the actually shipping hardware available at any given point in time is compared (June 1998: the 21164/600). However for non floating point applications the issue is not as clear-cut. Very high clock rate x86 machines (e.g. Pentium-II/400) provide impressive integer performance, for use in e.g. databases or Web server applications. For 3D rendering applications you may want to consider the GNU/GPL Mesa OpenGL compatible library, which has support for some graphics accelerator chips. Also note that some applications are not CPU bound. Check the exact bottleneck in your case.