Dell XPS 13: Windows 10 vs. Linux Distribution Benchmarks

Clear Linux still took first with the FLAC audio encoding workload though the other operating systems were not far behind and the Windows 10 performance was on-par with Linux.

The FFmpeg video encode performance wound up being faster on Windows over Linux for this Dell XPS laptop.

Fedora Workstation 28 secured a narrow lead with the libjpeg-turbo benchmark.

While in the Python PyBench workload, Clear Linux was the fastest.

Clear Linux also secured another victory by a measurable margin with the PHP benchmark.

The Git revision control system performance is slower on Windows, with Linux seemingly continuing to offer better performance in the more I/O heavy workloads.

Of nearly 50 benchmarks ran in total for this OS benchmark comparison from the Dell XPS 13 9370 laptop, Clear Linux was the fastest most often with 45% of the time being in first followed by Windows 10 with wins 21% of the time and another 15% of the time Windows 10 WSL secured a first place finish. Following that was Fedora Workstation with wins 10% of the time and then Ubuntu 18.04 at 6%. Arguably most interesting from these Linux OS benchmarks on the Core i7 laptop was how often Windows 10 was competing very well with the Linux distributions. When running similar benchmarks on server hardware or high-end desktop platforms, the Linux distributions have tended to come out ahead much more often than Microsoft Windows, but for this low-power Dell XPS9370-7002SLV laptop, Windows 10 carried quite a decent punch. Additionally, the power consumption is comparable between the operating systems. Other tests from this Dell XPS 13 laptop will be coming up soon on Phoronix.