Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 21 December 2023 at 09:00 PM EST. Page 4 of 7. 68 Comments.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Danish Mood, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Orange Juice, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: LuxCore Benchmark, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism, Acceleration: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.

Moving to more creator workloads, the open-source LuxCore renderer was showing strong leads with Ubuntu Linux on this Core Ultra 7 155H laptop compared to Windows 11. Not particularly surprising in general.

Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Slow. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Medium. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Slow. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Medium. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Very Fast. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Super Fast. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Ultra Fast. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Very Fast. Windows 11 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Super Fast. Windows 11 was the fastest.
Kvazaar benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Ultra Fast. Windows 11 was the fastest.

With the Kvazaar H.265 video encoder Linux was also consistently leading on this Meteor Lake laptop. However, when encoding 1080p content rather than 4K the performance tended to match between the two operating systems.

Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RT.hdr_alb_nrm.3840x2160, Device: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RT.ldr_alb_nrm.3840x2160, Device: CPU-Only. Windows 11 was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RTLightmap.hdr.4096x4096, Device: CPU-Only. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 was the fastest.

With Intel's Open Image Denoise library the performance was quite comparable between the two operating systems.


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