After half a year, Linux performance surpasses Windows 11 again

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In November last year, the foreign media Phoronix conducted a comparative test of the performance of Windows 11 and Linux (see previous articles), at that time, because the Intel Alder Lake CPU architecture was specially optimized for Windows 11, Windows systems can be better Using the hybrid architecture of the P+E core and the hardware thread scheduling technology (Intel Thread Director) used in Alder Lake, the performance of the Windows system far exceeds that of Linux in the test.

Now, after more than half a year, with the Linux kernel version bringing a number of performance improvements related to Alder Lake, naturally many users want to know whether the current Linux system is more competitive than before. The foreign media Phoronix also officially announced the latest results of the comparison test of Windows 11, Ubuntu and Clear Linux recently.

The test platform configuration used this time:

• Intel Core i9-12900K processor

• ASUS ROG STRIX Z690E GAMING WIFI Motherboard

• 2 x 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM

• Western Digital 500GB SN850 NVMe SSD

• AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics

Participating systems tested:

• Windows 11 Pro

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS + Linux 5.18

• Intel Clear Linux 36580

Note: All operating systems are tested in their default state with all stable version updates used in testing.

On the above four test platforms, a total of 103 tests were successfully run this time, including browser benchmarks, video encoding, image encoding and decompression. As you can see from the image below ( number/percentage of fastest completed tests ), Intel’s own Clear Linux outperformed the competition in 55 out of 103 tests, or 53% of the total; while Ubuntu Linux outperformed the competition in 103 19 of the tests performed well, accounting for 18.4%; while Windows 11, which performed best last year, only performed well in 16 tests this year, accounting for 15.5%; on all four test platforms, Windows 11’s performance The performance is only slightly better than Ubuntu 22.04 LTS + Linux 5.18.

From the above comparison test results, you may feel that the performance of Windows 11 is quite satisfactory and in line with expectations, but if you look at this comparison test from another angle, you will find that the performance of Windows 11 is not satisfactory. .

The above picture shows the number and proportion of the fastest completed tests, and Windows 11 only accounts for 15.5%; but if you compare the number and proportion of the slowest completed tests (as shown in the figure below), Windows 11 is the last in 74 of the 103 tests. One, accounting for as high as 72%; basically fast is equivalent to “except for a few tests completed with the first place, other tests are basically completed in the last place”. In contrast, Clear Linux, Ubuntu and Ubuntu + Linux 5.18, they only completed 1, 18 and 10 test scores respectively, which is far lower than Windows 11.

Here are some of the results from this test:

WebP Image Encoding: This is a test of Google’s libwebp and cwebp image encoding tools, using 6000×4000 pixel JPEG image samples as input (lower scores are better).

DaCapo Benchmark: This test runs the DaCapo benchmark written in Java and is designed to measure system/CPU performance (lower scores are better).

Zstd compression: This test measures the time it takes to compress/decompress a sample file using the Zstd compression technique (higher scores are better, top: compress/bottom: decompress).

Users can visit the OpenBenchmarking.org page to view the full results of all 103 benchmarks between Windows and Linux.

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