Benchmarking Five Linux Distros Against Windows 11 On The Threadripper PRO 7995WX / HP Z6 G5 A
In some workloads there was significant variation between the different Linux distributions but at a high level the five tested Linux distributions tended to perform similar.
In a subset of the benchmarks Ubuntu 23.10 with the "performance" CPU frequency scaling governor was of help when it meant ramping up the CPU performance frequencies quicker. Similarly, CentOS Stream 9 also defaults to the performance governor.
While Ubuntu 23.10 was already faster than Windows 11 for JPEG-XL image encoding, the other tested Linux distributions ended up being much faster and widening the lead from Windows 11.
While many like to think Arch Linux performs the fastest of Linux distributions, only in a handful of the benchmarks was it the front-runner and often by very narrow margins.