Windows 10 Build 21370 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux On AMD Ryzen 5900X

When it came to the ParaView workstation visualization software and data analysis software package, Ubuntu 21.04 was delivering much better performance even with the latest NVIDIA drivers on both platforms derived from the same sources. (A NVIDIA RTX 3090 Windows vs. Linux graphics comparison specifically is coming in a separate article.)

As seen with other systems, the Leela Chess Zero neural network chess engine with its BLAS back-end performs much better on Windows than Linux.

Also to some surprise was NAMD on Windows slightly outperforming Linux on this Ryzen 9 5900X desktop.

Ubuntu 21.04 was offering much better WebP image encode performance using the reference encoder.