He Ryzen 7 7800X3D It served to revive a line of AMD processors that had fallen on hard times commercially, due in part to the company’s own mistakes. In addition to typical tests benchmarking with video games, it doesn’t hurt to make one Comparison between Linux (Ubuntu in this case) and Windows 11which is a task usually handled by Phoronix.

For context, the Ubuntu vs Windows 11 comparison on an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D was done with an ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO motherboard that had BIOS 9927 installed. Other components fitted are 32GB RAM at 6000MHz. (16GB x 2), Radeon RX 7900 XT dedicated graphics card with 24GB VRAM and 2TB Solidigm P44 Pro NVMe SSD. Image resolution was 3840 × 2160 pixels with an ASUS MG8U monitor.

Regarding the basic aspects of the software, on the one hand there was Windows 11 Pro Build 22621 along with version 31.0.14043.7000 of the Radeon drivers, on the other hand Ubuntu 23.04 Beta with Linux 6.2 Mesa 23.0.2 kernel was used (this component provides standard support for OpenGL, Vulkan and openCL) and Wayland as a graphics server (it’s actually a protocol, but for simplicity).

If visible, Ubuntu 23.04 beats Windows 11 Pro on general levels with a geometric mean of 53.98 compared to the average of 50.62 registered by Microsoft, which is only 6% higher approximately. The situation is different if one considers the number of times one operating system has defeated another since then Ubuntu 23.04 took the top spot 58 times, 72% of the time, compared to top 22 Windows 11 Pro, which got 27.5%.

If you look at some specific tests, Ubuntu consistently shows better performance with JPEG XL and Blender. Blender running better on Linux than Windows at the processor level is something that has become a habit.

from his side, Windows 11 Pro was more competent with dav1d, AV1 video format player/decoder. Linux tends to lag behind in these aspects and, even more paradoxically, tends to offer poorer support for free formats than Windows.

The fact that Linux performs better than Windows at the CPU level is something that is becoming a habit, but things still look favorable for Microsoft when we talk about the performance of graphics drivers, although factors such as the use of a Proton account must be taken into account here by Linux.