according to review According to Phoronix, AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7800X3D (one of the best CPUs for gaming) is an average of 7% faster on Linux Ubuntu 23.04 compared to Windows 11 Pro. The Linux OS outperformed its Windows counterpart 72.5% of the time in 80 application suites tested by Phoronix. 7% isn’t a big number, but it’s good to know that Linux users won’t suffer a performance hit compared to Microsoft’s more mainstream Windows operating system.
The tests included OpenJDK Java, Image Encoding, Chess Benchmark, LuxCore, Video Encoding, Intel oneAPI, ASTC Encoding, Blender, Indigo Renderer, Appleseed, V-Ray, Geekbench, Google Chrome Browser Benchmark and many more applications. I was.
Some notable achievements on Linux include a performance advantage of 50% on DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1, 21% on Blender 3.5, 22% on OSPRay, and 32% on JPEG XL libjxl 0.7. included. Windows 11 Pro’s notable achievements, meanwhile, include a 22% faster performance on the BMW27 benchmark in Blender 3.5, a 17.3% faster performance on the Barbershop benchmark on Blender 3.5, and a 30% faster performance on the Selenium PSPDFKit WASM benchmark.
But again, the 7800X3D was faster in 72.5% of all tests on Linux compared to Windows 11, and performed 7% better on average. (So most of the tests were mostly neck and shoulders.)
Phoronix doesn’t explain exactly how or why Linux is better than Windows 11, but AMD is aggressively adding CPU optimizations to Linux in the form of AMD P-State EPP drivers. is a well-known fact. Implemented in Linux kernel 6.0 some time ago, this driver adds CPU optimizations to improve power consumption and performance of Zen 2, Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips. The new driver gives Ryzen CPUs a boost over the usual ACPI CPUFreq driver by scheduling tasks to the correct cores (i.e. tasking the right workload to the cores with the highest possible clock speeds) can.
This is probably at least part of AMD’s 7% average performance advantage on Ubuntu. Phoronix has already seen a 6% performance improvement using this same driver. Ryzen 9 7950XSo it’s not unreasonable to assume that the same is true for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
