On AMD Ryzen 5900X, Phoronix compares Windows 10 Build 21370 to Ubuntu 21.04 Linux.
Last month when carrying out tests of Windows 10 vs. Linux on the Intel Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" processor we were very surprised to see Windows 10 frankly performing so well compared to Ubuntu and picking up more wins than usual. That unexpectedly strong showing for Windows 10 might be due to Intel's P-State behavior with Rocket Lake or other power management tuning or there the lack of on Linux at this time. But it led me to wondering if the latest Windows 10 updates spelled out anything different on the AMD Ryzen side... So here are some benchmarks of the latest Microsoft Windows 10 against Ubuntu 21.04 on the same AMD Ryzen 9 5900X system.
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 Build 21370 was benchmarked as the very newest Windows Insider Preview build for getting the latest software support and also using the latest AMD drivers as of testing. On the Linux side was the recently released Ubuntu 21.04 with the Linux 5.11 kernel.
The same hardware platform was used for benchmarking both operating systems with the Ryzen 9 5900X, ASUS CROSSHAIR VIII HERO motherboard, 2 x 8GB DDR4-3600 memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics, and 1TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus NVMe SSD.
