phoronix KVM testing on Fedora 38 via the Phoronix Test Suite. old_cpu: Processor: 8 x AMD EPYC (with IBPB) (8 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 46GB, Disk: 0GB Seagate STORAGE DEVICE, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM 2GB, Audio: AMD Caicos HDMI Audio, Monitor: 2 x IPS235, Network: Red Hat Virtio 1.0 device OS: Fedora 38, Kernel: 6.6.13-100.fc38.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 44.8, Display Server: X Server 1.20.14 + Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 23.1.9 (LLVM 16.0.6), Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: KVM old_cpu2: Processor: 8 x AMD EPYC (with IBPB) (8 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 46GB, Disk: 0GB Seagate STORAGE DEVICE, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM 2GB, Audio: AMD Caicos HDMI Audio, Monitor: 2 x IPS235, Network: Red Hat Virtio 1.0 device OS: Fedora 38, Kernel: 6.6.13-100.fc38.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 44.8, Display Server: X Server 1.20.14 + Wayland, Compiler: GCC 13.2.1 20231011, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: KVM Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better old_cpu .. 20.37 |============================================================= old_cpu2 . 18.75 |========================================================