AMD Ryzen 7 2700X: Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 23 July 2018 at 12:00 AM EDT. Page 4 of 7. 19 Comments.
Windows vs. Linux Distributions - AMD Ryzen 7 Benchmarks

With the basic 7-Zip compression benchmark, Windows 10 was performing right in line with the Linux distributions except for Clear Linux that was coming out ahead of the other distributions on this AMD Ryzen system.

Windows vs. Linux Distributions - AMD Ryzen 7 Benchmarks

it was a similar story with the Stockfish chess engine benchmark.

Windows vs. Linux Distributions - AMD Ryzen 7 Benchmarks

Antergos, Clear Linux, and Fedora were the fastest with the C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracer while Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Windows 10 were in the back.

Windows vs. Linux Distributions - AMD Ryzen 7 Benchmarks

The Primesieve prime number generator performed basically the same across the tested operating systems.

Windows vs. Linux Distributions - AMD Ryzen 7 Benchmarks

Meanwhile in the Y-Cruncher Pi computation benchmark, Clear Linux had a slight advantage, Antergos 18.7-Rolling was slightly behind, and Fedora, Ubuntu, and Windows 10 were performing in the middle of the race.

Windows vs. Linux Distributions - AMD Ryzen 7 Benchmarks

Clear Linux scored another win, this time with the single-threaded FLAC audio encoding benchmark.

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