AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 28 May 2021 at 01:19 PM EDT. Page 3 of 6. 3 Comments.
Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux

Not that you'd want to run NAMD or some really demanding scientific codes on a budget laptop, but surprisingly in that use-case Windows 10 performed better than Ubuntu 21.04.

Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux
Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux
Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux
Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux

Zstd compression performance was mixed between operating systems.

Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux
Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux

While Linux dominated in yesterday's Threadripper 3990X Windows vs. Ubuntu benchmarks when involving OpenMP workloads, on this six-core laptop the two operating systems performed much closer.

Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux
Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux
Lenovo Ryzen 5 5500U Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux

Other workloads like dav1d were also much closer.


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