Phoronix does compilation benchmarks (for the Linux kernel and LLVM), the existing Ryzen chips do perform quite well on them. The i5-8400 is probably the closest thing on the chart to your 8850h.
But there are diminishing returns to adding more cores past a certain point which will depend on your codebase and compiler. If your builds are at 100% CPU utilization most of the time then you will probably see pretty large gains, but sometimes a significant chunk of the time ends up being bottlenecked by single threaded performance.
> But there are diminishing returns to adding more cores past a certain point which will depend on your codebase and compiler. If your builds are at 100% CPU utilization most of the time then you will probably see pretty large gains, but sometimes a significant chunk of the time ends up being bottlenecked by single threaded performance.
The Epyc 7502 in that chart is going to be roughly equivalent to the 32-core Threadripper 3 announced today. Both are 32 cores with 128MB of L3, but the Threadripper part has a much higher base & turbo clock speed so it'd compile even faster. Probably.
Does linux compilation take a few minutes? The chart there says Ryzen 3 2200G takes 242 seconds to compile the whole kernel. I find that difficult to believe.
Phoronix tests compiling the upstream default config which is pretty barebones. A normal kernel build for a desktop machine will take much longer because there are more modules enabled.
Ah great, thanks. It's actually very helpful. I was actually looking at the Passmark score a week ago, but couldn't tell if it's trustworthy. Nice to get an endorsement.
But there are diminishing returns to adding more cores past a certain point which will depend on your codebase and compiler. If your builds are at 100% CPU utilization most of the time then you will probably see pretty large gains, but sometimes a significant chunk of the time ends up being bottlenecked by single threaded performance.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-37...