Dell XPS 13: Windows 10 vs. Linux Distribution Benchmarks

From this laptop backed by an NVMe SSD, there wasn't a whole lot of deviation in the results for the SQLite embedded database between the operating systems with just a four second spread between fastest and the slowest operating systems. Clear Linux was the fastest but effectively tied with it was Windows 10.

For sequential reads with FIO, Fedora Workstation was the fastest followed by openSUSE and then Clear Linux, Windows 10, and then Ubuntu 18.04. WSL wasn't behaving with FIO, but then again Windows Subsystem for Linux is horribly slow in I/O heavy workloads at this point.

With sequential writes, Clear Linux and Ubuntu 18.04 were the front-runners while Windows 10 with NTFS was in a distant last place.

There are more test results in the recent UHD Graphics 620 article, but Windows 10 under Xonotic was much faster than the Linux distributions. This though was one of the extreme cases as generally the Intel Windows vs. Linux OpenGL performance for Kabylake era hardware is quite comparable.

In the case of the synthetic OpenGL test cases of GpuTest, the results were mixed between Windows and the four Linux distributions.