A Quick Look At The Windows Server vs. Linux Performance On The Threadripper 2990WX

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 August 2018 at 01:24 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 25 Comments.
Windows Server vs. Linux - AMD Threadripper 2990WX Performance Benchmarks

Here is the 7-Zip compression performance that lots of people seem to be talking about this week for the Threadripper 2990WX... Windows 10 at around 40~41k MIPS as expected and shown previously along with what's been reported by other publications. When running Windows Server 2019, there is only a very small (~2.4%) rise in performance compared to Windows 10 and still well behind the tested Linux distributions.

Windows Server vs. Linux - AMD Threadripper 2990WX Performance Benchmarks

Windows 10 and Windows Server were running about the speed of Clear Linux still in the Stockfish chess engine benchmark.

Windows Server vs. Linux - AMD Threadripper 2990WX Performance Benchmarks
Windows Server vs. Linux - AMD Threadripper 2990WX Performance Benchmarks

Windows Server ended up being less competitive with Linux in the single-threaded FLAC audio encoding benchmark as well as the BLAKE2 crypto run.

Windows Server vs. Linux - AMD Threadripper 2990WX Performance Benchmarks

Windows Server also loses out on the Minion Solitare test.


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