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

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 21 November 2023 at 09:38 AM EST. Page 2 of 7. 21 Comments.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Danish Mood, Acceleration: CPU. Windows 11 Pro H2-23 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: LuxCore Benchmark, Acceleration: CPU. Windows 11 Pro H2-23 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Orange Juice, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Linux has for years performed very well in the CPU-based rendering workloads like with Blender and LuxCore. With these LuxCore results we continue to see Ubuntu 23.10 performing very strong while in some of the more basic scenes the performance did get close between Windows and Linux.

Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer, Model: Crown. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Crown. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer, Model: Asian Dragon. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer, Model: Asian Dragon Obj. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon Obj. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

With using the official release binaries for Windows and Linux, Intel's Embree ray-tracing kernel performance was across-the-board the fastest when on Ubuntu 23.10. These were significant gains in favor of Linux for creators wishing to maximize their productivity.


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