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Windows 10 May 2020 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

Windows did come out the fastest for x264 encoding on Threasdripper 3970X.

With Intel's Embree ray-tracing kernels, Linux continues offering better performance over Windows.

In other creator workloads, Windows was generally in last place behind the five Linux distributions benchmarked.