A Look At The Intel Cascade Lake Performance For Windows Server 2019 vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 22 April 2019 at 04:11 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 27 Comments.
Windows Benchmarks Intel Xeon Platinum Cascade Lake

The SciMark2 micro-benchmarks performed similarly on Windows Server 2019 to the Linux distributions except for Clear Linux that performs much faster thanks to its default compiler optimizations.

Windows Benchmarks Intel Xeon Platinum Cascade Lake

The x264 video encode performance on Windows Server 2019 was coming in just shy of FreeBSD 12 and Clear Linux while ahead of the other operating systems tested.

Windows Benchmarks Intel Xeon Platinum Cascade Lake
Windows Benchmarks Intel Xeon Platinum Cascade Lake
Windows Benchmarks Intel Xeon Platinum Cascade Lake

The OpenMP-threaded GraphicsMagick program for manipulating images saw roughly similar performance to FreeBSD 12 but behind the Linux distributions.

Windows Benchmarks Intel Xeon Platinum Cascade Lake

The Stockfish chess benchmark performed similarly to Linux/FreeBSD for the Stockfish chess engine except for being much slower on WSL.

Windows Benchmarks Intel Xeon Platinum Cascade Lake

Besides WSL having I/O bottlenecks, in the highly-threaded workloads with this Cascade Lake server on Windows Subsystem for Linux we are also seeing much lower performance than we normally do out of desktop/HEDT platforms.


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