Windows Subsystem For Linux / WSL2 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 December 2020 at 12:10 PM EST. Page 2 of 6. 24 Comments.
Ryzen 9 5900X WSL Ubuntu Linux Tests
Ryzen 9 5900X WSL Ubuntu Linux Tests
Ryzen 9 5900X WSL Ubuntu Linux Tests
Ryzen 9 5900X WSL Ubuntu Linux Tests
Ryzen 9 5900X WSL Ubuntu Linux Tests

As we are used to seeing, for purely computational workloads without much I/O involvement or other kernel interactions the performance of WSL is quite comparable to the bare metal Linux performance...

Ryzen 9 5900X WSL Ubuntu Linux Tests
Ryzen 9 5900X WSL Ubuntu Linux Tests

But there are exceptions like in the case of the LAMMPS and GROMACS workloads where the performance on WSL was measurably slower than on bare metal Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS or the newest 20.10 state.


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