He Ryzen 7 7800X3D It has served to give life to a series of AMD processors that have had a difficult time commercially, partly due to the company’s own errors. In addition to the typical tests of benchmarking with videogames, it doesn’t hurt to make one Comparison between Linux (Ubuntu in this case) and Windows 11a task that is usually handled by Phoronix.
To put ourselves in context, the comparison of Ubuntu Vs Windows 11 on an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor has been carried out with an ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO motherboard that had the BIOS 9927 installed. The other components mounted are 32GB of RAM at 6,000MHz (16GB x 2), a dedicated Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card with 24GB of VRAM and a 2TB Solidigm P44 Pro NVMe SSD. The image resolution was 3,840×2,160 pixels with an ASUS MG8U monitor.
Regarding the basic aspects of the software, on the one hand there was Windows 11 Pro Build 22621 together with version 31.0.14043.7000 of the Radeon drivers, while on the other hand Ubuntu 23.04 Beta was used with the Linux 6.2 kernel, Mesa 23.0.2 (this component provides the standard OpenGL, Vulkan and openCL support) and Wayland as a graphical server (actually it is a protocol, but for simplicity’s sake).
As far as can be seen, Ubuntu 23.04 defeats Windows 11 Pro at general levels with a geometric mean of 53.98 compared to the average of 50.62 registered by the Microsoft system, which is only 6% more approximately. The situation is different if the number of times that one operating system has defeated the other is taken, since there Ubuntu 23.04 came in first place 58 times, 72% of the time, versus Windows 11 Pro’s top 22, which grabbed 27.5%.
Looking at some specific tests, Ubuntu has consistently shown better performance with JPEG XL and Blender. That Blender performs better on Linux than on Windows at the processor level is something that has become a habit.
For his part, Windows 11 Pro has been more competent with dav1d, a player/decoder of the AV1 video format. Linux tends to lag behind in these aspects and, what is even more paradoxical, tends to offer worse support for free formats than Windows.
The fact that Linux performs better than Windows at the processor level is something that is becoming a habit, but things still look favorable for the Microsoft system when we talk about the performance of the graphics drivers, although here factors such as use must be taken into account. of Proton by Linux.
