Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Performance With Intel Tiger Lake, AMD Renoir

For OpenJDK Java performance on each platform, Ubuntu 20.10 was delivering faster results on both the AMD and Intel laptops.

For Zstd data compression at the low compression level the performance on Tiger Lake was faster on Ubuntu while for Renoir Windows was leading. But at the highest compression level, the performance between Windows and Linux was even for each laptop.

The LibRAW library for digital camera RAW image handling was much faster on Linux than Windows.

The TSCP chess benchmark meanwhile slightly favored Ubuntu 20.10 on both laptops.

The dav1d AV1 video decoding results were mixed but generally Tiger Lake on Linux was faster where as Renoir seemed to see greater performance on Windows by wider margins.