Phoronix author Michael Larabel reported on October 16, 2026, that Linux 7.3 Git was fastest in most of his listed comparisons with Linux 7.2 on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX, a processor with 96 cores and 192 threads. Phoronix’s report covered storage, databases, networking, compilation and CPU-based AI workloads.
Phoronix described the gains as incremental, subtle or small. The findings are qualitative: they point to a pattern across the listed tests, not a numerical estimate of how much faster Linux 7.3 Git ran.
What the benchmarks covered
The report’s test captions identify Linux 7.3 Git as fastest in most of the listed comparisons. They include these workload settings:
| Workload | Test conditions | Caption-level result |
| Storage I/O | Flexible IO Tester random reads with IO_uring, 4 KB blocks and one job; direct I/O enabled and disabled | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest in both configurations |
| PostgreSQL | Read-write tests, scaling factor 100, with 500 and 800 clients; average-latency variants were also shown | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest in both client configurations |
| MariaDB | oltp_read_only at 128 threads | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest |
| TigerBeetle | Tests with 1 and 8 clients | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest |
| Networking | xfr TCP with 128 threads; xfr QUIC with 1 thread; Ethr UDP bandwidth with 1 thread; server address localhost | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest in the listed tests |
| Stress-NG | Forking, IO_uring and mutex tests | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest in the listed tests |
| Compilation | Linux kernel defconfig and allmodconfig; a Godot compile-time test | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest in the listed tests |
| Lemonade | CPU backend, code-short scenario, MiniCPM4-8B-GGUF model | Linux 7.3 Git was fastest |
| OpenVINO | Age Gender Recognition Retail 0013 FP16-INT8, CPU device, throughput mode | Two captions name different fastest kernels |
The OpenVINO captions disagree even though they give the same model, device and mode: one names Linux 7.2 as fastest, while the other names Linux 7.3 Git. That leaves no single winner to apply to this test. Lemonade’s CPU comparison, by contrast, is captioned in favor of Linux 7.3 Git.
How far the results reach
The benchmark covers a broad mix of workloads, but its results belong to the listed tests on the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX. They offer a workload-level signal for that system, not a general performance forecast for every Threadripper workstation or Linux workload.
Phoronix’s October 16 report also gave October 18 as Linux 7.3’s scheduled release date.
