Wine 3.10 vs. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. Windows 10 Desktop Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 22 June 2018 at 08:18 AM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 57 Comments.
Wine vs. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. Windows 10 Pro Benchmarks

FFmpeg video encoding was another test case where Wine was again much slower than the native Windows/Linux builds, perhaps due to the I/O involved in these tests compared to the pure CPU test cases where Wine is much more competitive.

Wine vs. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. Windows 10 Pro Benchmarks

In the Libjpeg-Turbo's JPEG benchmark, the three test configurations performed nearly the same.

Wine vs. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. Windows 10 Pro Benchmarks

Running some synthetic benchmarks with OSBench, we see the time to create files is massively slower under Wine than under Windows or Ubuntu.

Wine vs. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. Windows 10 Pro Benchmarks

The thread creation performance is also slower with Wine, but not by nearly as much as when disk access is involved.

Wine vs. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. Windows 10 Pro Benchmarks

The memory allocation performance wasn't that much slower either with Wine compared to Windows 10.

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