Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs. Ubuntu Linux With The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 26 April 2023 at 11:16 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 24 Comments.
VVenC benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Faster. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.
VVenC benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Faster. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.

For some video encoding apps like the open-source H.266 VVenC solution there wasn't any negative impact from using WSL2....

x265 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.
x265 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.

But with x265 video encoding for example it performed much worse under WSL2 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D desktop.

OpenVKL benchmark with settings of Benchmark: vklBenchmark ISPC. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Decompression Rating. Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.

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