Intel Tiger Lake Performance Between Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux

For "creator" workloads, Ubuntu continues to dominate over Windows. Among the creator workloads tested on this Tiger Lake i7-1185G7 notebook were Blender, Appleseed, V-Ray, Indigobench, x264, dav1d, svt-av1, AVIFENC, audio encoding, GraphicsMagick image manipulation, RAW image handling, WebP image encoding, Embree, and the Neatbench video editor.

For the multi-threaded CPU renders especially, Ubuntu 21.04 was delivering much greater performance out of this Dell XPS 13 9310 laptop.

One of the areas where Windows 10 did come out faster than Ubuntu was when looking at graphics workloads with game tests as well as Paraview workstation visualizations.

When stressing the graphics stack with Vulkan compute workloads including VkResample, RealSR-NCNN, and Waifu2x-NCNN, Windows 10 also had a better showing than Ubuntu with its stock Intel graphics drivers.

For web browser tests using Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox on each platform, the results were quite close overall but in some of the individual benchmarks there tended to be sizable differences. The browser benchmarks is one of the few areas where Windows normally performs very well -- often outperforming -- Linux.