We love to observe an excellent dogfight, particularly when the 2 opponents could be thought of rivals. You know, Celtics versus Lakers (go Celtics!), Red Sox versus Yankees (go Red Sox!), and so forth. In the realm of tech, there’s Windows versus Linux on the software program facet, and a brand new set of benchmarks pit the 2 in opposition to one another to see which is quicker.
The of us at Phoronix are those who carried out the testing on an Intel twelfth Gen Alder Lake platform. They selected the Core i9-12900K, which stood as Intel’s flagship shopper desktop CPU till the Core i9-12900KS got here out, and surrounded it with an ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming WiFi motherboard, 32GB (2x16GB) of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 500GB WD Black SN850 SSD, and a Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card.
By all means, that is a killer configuration that ought to excel at absolutely anything you throw at it, from excessive decision gaming to content material creation and productiveness chores. For the efficiency comparability, the positioning ran a bunch of benchmarks in Windows 11 Pro, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the Linux 5.18 secure kernel, and Intel’s Clear Linux 36580.
Consider this one other rematch, if you’ll. Back in February, the identical site carried out an identical showdown and as we summed up on the time, Linux ran circles round Windows 11. It’s extra nuanced than that, in fact, however out of 104 checks, Windows 11 got here out on high simply 14 instances. Clear Linux dominated with 66 victories, whereas Windows 11 completed useless final among the many distros 37.5 % of the time.
Source: Phoronix
Have issues modified since then? You could be stunned that they haven’t. Or perhaps you are not stunned. Either method, the newest spherical of testing between Windows 11 (now that it is had time to mature) and Linux nonetheless favors the latter (like within the benchmark above).
Of course, the kind of benchmarks matter, and this isn’t a gaming analysis by any stretch. But out of those the positioning selected that take a look at workstation virtualization, compression, rendering, video encoding, and so forth Linux nonetheless proved sooner.
Source: Phoronix
Looking on the cumulative outcomes of the Windows 11 versus Linux showdown, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was round 4 % sooner than Windows 11, whereas Clear Linux widened the hole to eight %. And this time round, Windows 11 got here in final among the many 4 distros a whopping 72 % of the time. These are averages throughout greater than 100 benchmarks.
The site concluded that “Intel Alder Lake is much more competitive these days against Windows than at launch last year,” and it is exhausting to argue in any other case.