Windows 11 has once again fallen far behind.
Phoronix put AMD’s new Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX 96-core behemoth to the test, pitting Windows 11 against Ubuntu to see which OS handles AMD’s high-end desktop parts better.
Phoronix found that Linux is the dominant operating system, outperforming its Microsoft counterpart by a whopping 20%.
The test system is an HP Z6 G5 workstation equipped with a Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX, 128GB DDR5-5200 Hynix RDIMM, Samsung NVMe SSD, and GeForce RTX A4000 graphics card.
For Windows 11 testing, Phoronix used Windows 11 Pro version 23H2 and Ubuntu 23.10 on Linux.
Phoronix tested the Threadripper chips on a variety of CPU-intensive tasks, including LuxCore, Intel Embree, OSPRay, Geekbench, Blender, and video encoding.
Overall, the Linux OS was 19.5% faster on average compared to Windows 11 Pro, the default OS on HP workstations.
Looking at some individual benchmarks, Windows 11 Pro came out ahead in several cases, including Kvazaar (an open source HEVC encoder), LuxCoreRender 2.6, and Geekbench 5.
Windows 11 was 3.2% to 14% faster than Ubuntu on these benchmarks.
However, the Linux OS showed superior performance in almost all other benchmarks.
Ubuntu was twice as fast as Windows on ASTC, asmFish, CPU encoding with AV1, OSPRay, LuxCoreRender 2.6 (RainbowColors and Prism scenes), and DaCapo benchmarks.
Linux continues to dominate Windows 11 when it comes to high-core count chips like AMD’s new 96-core Threadripper CPUs.
Threadripper processors are notorious for running better on Linux distros due to differences in how Windows and Linux CPU schedulers work.
While Windows is typically used to handling consumer CPUs with low core counts, the Linux operating system is widely used in the corporate world, where chips with high core counts dominate.
Windows has gotten much better over the past few years at dealing with the complexities of AMD’s high-core count CPU architecture, but it appears it still isn’t good enough to beat Linux.
If you use heavily multi-threaded HPC applications and are planning to purchase a Threadripper workstation, the performance improvements alone may be worth switching to Linux.
Explanation:
Linux is better than Windows when it comes to running Threadripper’s multi-core CPU.
Windows used to have a problem with performance dropping with a 64-core, 128-thread CPU, but has it been resolved now?
This seems to be the case with Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX, but Winodws11Pro seems to have the upper hand in three benchmark software, but Linux seems to have the upper hand in most other benchmarks, with some benchmarks having a 2x difference. .
The reason is clear, and it seems to be a difference in the behavior of the CPU scheduler between Windows and Linux.
If you are planning to purchase Threadripper, you will be able to get more out of its performance on Linux than on Windows.
Looking at the specs of our test machine, we were surprised to see a dizzyingly high-performance workstation.
Ryzen 7000X3D series (Socket AM5)
AMD
¥99,999 (As of 2023/11/22 06:48:38 Amazon research – details)
AMD
¥88,687 (As of 2023/11/22 06:51:25 Amazon research – details)
AMD
¥59,000 (As of 2023/11/22 06:42:37 Amazon research – details)
Ryzen 7000 series (Socket AM5)
AMD
¥72,525 (As of 2023/11/21 11:48:38 Amazon research – details)
AMD
¥52,323 (as of 2023/11/21 11:48:40 Amazon research – details)
AMD
¥36,162 (as of 2023/11/21 12:03:06 Amazon research – details)
Ryzen 5000G series APU (Built-in GPU/Socket AM4)
AMD
¥28,680 (As of 2023/11/21 15:37:36 Amazon research – details)
AMD
¥18,400 (As of 2023/11/22 03:40:17 Amazon research – details)
Ryzen 5000/4000 series low price CPU
AMD
¥32,121 (as of 2023/11/21 13:37:20 Amazon research – details)
AMD
¥13,980 (As of 2023/11/21 15:37:36 Amazon research – details)
AMD
¥13,000 (As of 2023/11/21 15:37:58 Amazon research – details)
(Ryzen 5644BOX Silver is Ryzen 5 4500)
AMD
¥8,790 (As of 2023/11/21 15:46:52 Amazon research – details)
(AMD Ryzen 0510BOX Silver is Ryzen 3 4100)
