We love to look at dogfight, particularly when the 2 opponents might be thought of rivals. You already know, Celtics versus Lakers (go Celtics!), Purple Sox versus Yankees (go Purple Sox!), and so forth. Within the realm of tech, there’s Home windows versus Linux on the software program aspect, and a brand new set of benchmarks pit the 2 in opposition to one another to see which is quicker.
The oldsters at Phoronix are those who performed the testing on an Intel twelfth Gen Alder Lake platform. They selected the Core i9-12900K, which stood as Intel’s flagship client 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 location ran a bunch of benchmarks in Home windows 11 Professional, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the Linux 5.18 steady kernel, and Intel’s Clear Linux 36580.
Contemplate this one other rematch, if you’ll. Again in February, the identical web site carried out a related showdown and as we summed up on the time, Linux ran circles round Home windows 11. It is extra nuanced than that, in fact, however out of 104 exams, Home windows 11 got here out on high simply 14 occasions. Clear Linux dominated with 66 victories, whereas Home windows 11 completed useless final among the many distros 37.5 p.c of the time.
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Have issues modified since then? You is perhaps shocked that they haven’t. Or possibly you are not shocked. Both means, the newest spherical of testing between Home windows 11 (now that it is had time to mature) and Linux nonetheless favors the latter (like within the benchmark above).
After all, the kind of benchmarks matter, and this isn’t a gaming analysis by any stretch. However out of those the location selected that take a look at workstation virtualization, compression, rendering, video encoding, and so forth Linux nonetheless proved quicker.
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Wanting on the cumulative outcomes of the Home windows 11 versus Linux showdown, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was round 4 p.c quicker than Home windows 11, whereas Clear Linux widened the hole to eight p.c. And this time round, Home windows 11 got here in final among the many 4 distros a whopping 72 p.c of the time. These are averages throughout greater than 100 benchmarks.
The location concluded that “Intel Alder Lake is far more aggressive nowadays in opposition to Home windows than at launch final yr,” and it is laborious to argue in any other case.
