Linux (Ubuntu) has once again beaten Windows 11 and this time by a reasonably large margin. The comparisons on this occasion were done on AMD’s 3D V-cache based Ryzen 7 5800X3D octa-core CPU.
Over the last few months, Windows 11 has had a really hard time keeping up with Linux in terms of performance.
The story was quite different back in 2021 though when Intel released its 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs that were based on the Performance Hybrid architecture consisting “Big” E-cores and “Bigger” P-cores. Microsoft and Intel worked together to optimize the Windows 11 scheduler for the new kind of architecture. As such, the Intel Core i9-12900K was found to perform significantly better on Windows 11 compared to Linux. Kernel version 5.16 was also found to be not quite ready for the new design, as it was also handily beaten by Windows 11.
However, as mentioned above, things are starting to turn around.
