NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 19 April 2023 at 11:00 AM EDT. Page 4 of 6. 33 Comments.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: MD5. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SHA1. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: 7-Zip. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SHA-512. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: TrueCrypt RIPEMD160 + XTS. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.

For GPU compute in areas like Hashcat with OpenCL, the Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 performance for the RTX 4080/4090 graphics cards was nearly identical.

OctaneBench benchmark with settings of Total Score. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.

The proprietary Octane renderer also saw similar performance between both operating systems.

LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: GPU. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Danish Mood, Acceleration: GPU. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Orange Juice, Acceleration: GPU. RTX 4090: Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: LuxCore Benchmark, Acceleration: GPU. RTX 4090: Windows 11 Pro was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism, Acceleration: GPU. RTX 4090: Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.

The LuxCore rendering results were a mixed bag with some scenes rendering faster on Windows 11 while for other scenes the performance was noticeably faster on Linux.


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