Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

Windows 11 was racking up more wins than usual in this ASUS Zenbook S 16 laptop testing of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with the launch-day operating system support on each platform.

Lastly some common single-threaded tests with Windows 11 working out better for audio encoding. You can see all the data via this result file.

When taking the geometric mean over the mix of 100+ tests run, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Linux 6.10 was less than 3% faster than Windows 11. Basically the same performance overall. From this testing today it was refreshing to see the AMD RDNA3.5 graphics performing so well on the open-source Linux graphics driver stack for launch-day. This is excellent news if we end up seeing Strix Point or some derivative used in upcoming handheld gaming consoles and other devices. But when it came to the CPU/system performance, Windows 11 was performing better than we typically find on other systems/processors. We'll see over the coming weeks/months if it's something specific to Strix Point like its Zen 5/5C layout or even the ASUS laptop or is more common across Zen 5 that Windows is beginning to perform better. Likewise, I'm constantly monitoring the flow of new Linux patches and will be keeping an eye out for any new possible AMD Linux performance optimizations.