AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - Windows vs. Linux Performance

First up were a few Vulkan (compute) tests. The Linux distributions were using the RADV Mesa driver as used by default while Windows 11 had the latest proprietary Radeon Software driver. At least for these workloads the Windows 11 performance was on-par with the slowest Linux distribution (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in this case). The newer Linux distributions with their newer Mesa versions tended to perform close to the same. Interestingly in a consistent first place was Intel's own Clear Linux platform with slight advantages over the others.

The results were close in GravityMark on OpenGL and Vulkan.

In the Unigine benchmarks for the Radeon Vega graphics, the OpenGL performance was similar between Windows and Linux even with the different driver stacks at play.

But if looking at the Direct3D 11 results from Unigine under Windows, that would provide a very slight (1~2 FPS) advantage over the Linux OpenGL results.

ParaView for workstation visualizations did favor Windows 11 or at least the Radeon Software for Windows driver stack.