Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

With currently reviewing the HP Z6 G5 A workstation powered by the new 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Zen 4 processor, one of the areas I was curious about was how well HP's tuned Microsoft Windows 11 compares to that of Linux. In this article is looking at how the Microsoft Windows 11 performance is out-of-the-box with the HP Z6 G5 A workstation as configured by HP versus a clean install of Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.5 kernel.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/threadripper-7995wx-windows-linux

[zexelon]

So I have found that WIndows 11 performance overall has imploded in the last 6 months across the board. I really dont know what they did but gaming fell off a cliff on my setup. My setup ironically is on a Threadripper 3970X (i.e. non-pro) but in a gaming VM. In the end I swapped the VM back to Windows 10 and all the stuttering/performance problems went away immediately.

Gaming on Linux via proton works way better then Windows 11 imho.

I do miss some of the UI/window manager tweaks they made in 11 though.

[avis]

Michael

Please do not use GB6 and stick to GB5.

GB6 has insane MT scaling issues, in short it's nearly unusable for anything with more than a couple of cores.

Would be great if you posted GB5 results instead. You can get it here.

Thank you!

[Volta]

Even with Power Save governor. Windows is joke.

[elbar]

alias dnf=apt && disqualified(dnf) install peepshow | 3 months subscription| pay some bucks

[Sadhu]

It would be nice to see results from kernel 6.6 and EEVDF scheduler.

[Michael]

It would be nice to see results from kernel 6.6 and EEVDF scheduler.

Separate article coming

[timofonic]

Michael
I wrote in the Wayland section a news about Budgie replacing their Mutter fork with wlroots and collaborate with others such as Xfce and LXQt. It's not a perfectly redacted article I did, but it may serve you as a base. It would be nice if you ask the interested parties and a deeper article about it.

[muncrief]

That's pretty amazing Micheal, thanks for running the benchmarks. Please keep them coming with other distros, from those far off the beaten path like Redhat/Fedora to pure Linux distros like Arch. It would also be interesting to see benchmarks with all distros running kernel 6.6. I know it can be done with Ubuntu using PPAs, and I'm assuming Redhat/Fedora must have something similar.

[kiffmet]

Seems like AMD_pstate is doing its thing. F_ck Windows - it's glorified spyware at this point. It's also funny that a nicely set up Linux distro can deliver a more consistent UI and UX nowadays. Oh how the tides have turned.