Windows vs. Linux Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen Server Performance

[zexelon]

Do you see any dedicated server hosts offering Windows Server on Ryzen servers? The ones I saw only listed Windws 10/11 or Linux. I think the Windows Server licensing cost would really turn down the value proposition for such low cost servers.

Maybe I am just confused about the purpose of the review. My initial impression was that a review titled "Windows vs. Linux Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen Server Performance" was intended to be about more commercial grade use cases. If it was intended for a "personal" server instance then yes, fully agreed the test cases make sense... but then the title and pre-amble should have made it clear this was bench marking for home use. "AMD Ryzen" tends to mean the whole family to readers (including Threadripper and EPYC in a lot of cases) so when I read that title I was really excited to see the commercial server setup review as this is actually something near and dear to the company I own.

All that said, I most likely had different expectations than the intent of the article.

If possible can we see an article pitting Windows Server against Linux specifically in the VM space? I would love to see hyper-v vs kvm for both windows and linux guests... but even as I write this out, it would likely be a very significant undertaking to put such a review together!

[Michael]

Maybe I am just confused about the purpose of the review. My initial impression was that a review titled "Windows vs. Linux Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen Server Performance" was intended to be about more commercial grade use cases. If it was intended for a "personal" server instance then yes, fully agreed the test cases make sense... but then the title and pre-amble should have made it clear this was bench marking for home use. "AMD Ryzen" tends to mean the whole family to readers (including Threadripper and EPYC in a lot of cases) so when I read that title I was really excited to see the commercial server setup review as this is actually something near and dear to the company I own.

Yeah titles can be a bit funky at times without making them too verbose... For the purposes of this testing was focused on Ryzen in budget dedicated server segment. Some may use Ryzen for web hosting but presumably not too concerned about performance or regardless are likely using Linux already

If possible can we see an article pitting Windows Server against Linux specifically in the VM space? I would love to see hyper-v vs kvm for both windows and linux guests... but even as I write this out, it would likely be a very significant undertaking to put such a review together!

Yeah likely could be quite time consuming for of limited interest... This particular server already had to be shipped back out for its return, but when next getting Ryzen server may take a look. Though does your request come in general (such as for EPYC) or just in regards to Ryzen server? If it's about EPYC, I can put it on my [long] TODO list due to at least having multiple EPYC servers locally.

[jacob]

Yup, pretty much 100% correct! Also need to point out that in pretty much no way is Windows 10/11 Pro a "server os". If your going to do a "server os" benchmark against windows you have to use one of the Windows Server editions, they are tuned much more to compete with Linux.

What I would love to see is a server benchmark with web servers (apache, ngix) and v-host comparison. For example how does qemu/kvm, xen, stack up against hyper-v?

But despite the title, those are workstation benchmarks so comparing against Windows Pro actually makes more sense.

[jacob]

Wow, Ubuntu 22.04 is really slow!
I wonder if this somehow related to the lots of Snap crap that it has been bundled in.
Imagine that this is also an LTS release.

It's probably because it's an unreleased development version. I've noticed that Ubuntu development builds tens to be noticeably slower than the releases.

[zilexa]

Would you please, please consider including Manjaro Linux in your next tests?

[Setif]

There is an edition called "Windows Pro for Workstations" It is offered as an option from the Windows system Installer, Maybe you should consider trying it.
It comes preinstalled on my mobile workstation.

[anarki2]

Linux apps run faster on Linux, that's a revelation.

[schmidtbag]

To me, the biggest takeaway is how the margin between Clear and everyone else is narrowing, which is honestly a great thing (assuming Clear isn't getting worse with time).

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

The message is clear: run in the clear.

[F.Ultra]

Wow, Ubuntu 22.04 is really slow!
I wonder if this somehow related to the lots of Snap crap that it has been bundled in.
Imagine that this is also an LTS release.

Snap impacts the launch time of applications, not the runtime performance of them.