# Same HW, more fun **URL:** \ **Category:** News and Announcements\ **Tags:** performance, kernel\ **Created:** [May 8, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/same-hw-more-fun/2803 "2025-05-08T20:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vikingforties](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/vikingforties/32/1192_2.png) [@vikingforties](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/vikingforties)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/same-hw-more-fun/2803/1 "2025-05-08T20:28:28Z")
Good news for all you folks out there on Ampere® Altra® & Altra Max® systems, Michael Larabel of Phoronix ([Michael Larabel - Phoronix Media | LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellarabel/)) has uncovered a nice [set of performance bumps](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-ampere-altra) available easily from the Ubuntu 25x release (GCC 14x, Kernel 6.14 etc.) Run on a System76 Thelio Astra Workstation using an ASRR board at 1DPC. Presumably available on other distros. Fedora 4x is getting there with GCC 14/15 now but still back on kernel 6.11. Overall performance averages out on Michael’s tests at 20% up with video transcode seeing almost double the performance! Someone has been beavering away 🙂 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/amperedevelopers/original/1X/3ed2a236647316d0042bf3541bd02de9fb3c7a56.png) ---
**Author:** ![poddingue](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/poddingue/32/22_2.png) [@poddingue](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/poddingue)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 8:44am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/same-hw-more-fun/2803/2 "2025-05-09T08:44:13Z")
That’s a nice performance bump ! 😍 ---
**Author:** ![Richard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Richard](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Richard)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/same-hw-more-fun/2803/3 "2025-05-12T12:08:48Z")
Impressive performance jump ---
**Author:** ![quocbao](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/quocbao/32/1035_2.png) [@quocbao](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/quocbao)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/same-hw-more-fun/2803/4 "2025-05-13T17:11:56Z")
I would wait for Ubuntu 26.04 with LTS kernel 😂 ---
**Author:** ![vikingforties](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/vikingforties/32/1192_2.png) [@vikingforties](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/vikingforties)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 8:39am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/same-hw-more-fun/2803/5 "2025-05-14T08:39:33Z")
Apparently point release 24.04.3 in August will bring the 6.14 kernel to 24 LTS. No need to be so patient. ---
**Author:** ![vikingforties](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/vikingforties/32/1192_2.png) [@vikingforties](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/vikingforties)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/same-hw-more-fun/2803/6 "2025-05-19T10:48:17Z")
And, out of the box, Ubuntu beats Fedora… [https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu2504-fedora42-ampere](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu2504-fedora42-ampere) Hints at the reasoning: _Fedora 42 though is on the new GCC 15 compiler unlike Ubuntu 25.04 sticking to GCC 14. On the System76 Thelio Astra there is also an important difference that Ubuntu 25.04 defaults to the cppc\_cpufreq driver with the ondemand governor while Fedora 42 defaulted to cppc\_cpufreq with the Schedutil governor for relying on kernel scheduler utilization data._