Benchmarking Five Linux Distros Against Windows 11 On The Threadripper PRO 7995WX / HP Z6 G5 A

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 29 November 2023 at 09:00 AM EST. Page 2 of 6. 81 Comments.

NAMD benchmark with settings of ATPase Simulation, 327,506 Atoms. Ubuntu 23.10 + Perf Gov was the fastest.

DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Jython. Debian Trixie Testing was the fastest.

DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Eclipse. Debian Trixie Testing was the fastest.

DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: GraphChi. openSUSE Tumbleweed was the fastest.

DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: FOP Print Formatter. Debian Trixie Testing was the fastest.

In some workloads there was significant variation between the different Linux distributions but at a high level the five tested Linux distributions tended to perform similar.

DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Avrora AVR Simulation Framework. CentOS Stream 9 was the fastest.

In a subset of the benchmarks Ubuntu 23.10 with the "performance" CPU frequency scaling governor was of help when it meant ramping up the CPU performance frequencies quicker. Similarly, CentOS Stream 9 also defaults to the performance governor.

JPEG XL libjxl benchmark with settings of Input: JPEG, Quality: 80. Debian Trixie Testing was the fastest.

JPEG XL libjxl benchmark with settings of Input: JPEG, Quality: 90. Debian Trixie Testing was the fastest.

JPEG XL libjxl benchmark with settings of Input: JPEG, Quality: 100. Arch Linux was the fastest.

While Ubuntu 23.10 was already faster than Windows 11 for JPEG-XL image encoding, the other tested Linux distributions ended up being much faster and widening the lead from Windows 11.

WebP Image Encode benchmark with settings of Encode Settings: Default. Ubuntu 23.10 + Perf Gov was the fastest.

WebP Image Encode benchmark with settings of Encode Settings: Quality 100. Arch Linux was the fastest.

WebP Image Encode benchmark with settings of Encode Settings: Quality 100, Lossless. Arch Linux was the fastest.

While many like to think Arch Linux performs the fastest of Linux distributions, only in a handful of the benchmarks was it the front-runner and often by very narrow margins.

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