Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 27 September 2023 at 11:00 AM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 42 Comments.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Fishy Cat, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona, Compute: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.

Blender continues to be one of the creator software packages that consistently performs much better on Linux than Windows.

IndigoBench benchmark with settings of Acceleration: CPU, Scene: Bedroom. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
IndigoBench benchmark with settings of Acceleration: CPU, Scene: Supercar. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
Appleseed benchmark with settings of Scene: Emily. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
Appleseed benchmark with settings of Scene: Disney Material. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.
Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.

Other creator software like the proprietary V-RAY and Indigo renderers also consistently favor Linux over Windows on the same hardware.

Number Of First Place Finishes benchmark with settings of Wins, 72 Tests.

Out of 72 benchmarks ran in total on both operating systems with the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4, Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest about 64% of the time.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux, AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Ubuntu 23.10 10 Sep was the fastest.

If taking the geometric mean of all the benchmark results, Ubuntu 23.10 comes out to being 10% faster than the stock Windows 11 Pro install as shipped by Lenovo for this AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U laptop. If you haven't already done so, see yesterday's Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 review for more information on using this new mobile workstation laptop under Linux and how it compares to other AMD/Intel mobile processors.

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