The latest Ubuntu beta release 25.04 carries significant performance improvements for AMD's latest EPYC 9005 'Turin' processors, as demonstrated by benchmarks from Phoronix. Currently in its beta stage, Ubuntu 25.04 is slated for a stable release on April 17th, though its lack of LTS (Long Term Support) might deter many enterprise and server-grade customers. Nonetheless, this is a positive development and bodes well for future releases, like next year's planned Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
To see how the new release holds up in terms of performance, Phoronix went ahead and put two EPYC 9755 CPUs to the test, each with 128 cores / 256 threads based on the Zen 5 architecture. The site used the reference AMD Volcano server coupled with 1,536 GB (24x64GB) of DDR5-6000 memory.
