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As some complementary data points to yesterday’s Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD Linux laptop review, here is a look at how the out-of-the-box Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance compares to that of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840U “Phoenix” laptop.
Yesterday’s ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 review outlined the Linux support and plenty of Linux benchmarks showing how this Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U mobile workstation compares to various other AMD and Intel laptops.
Prior to blowing out the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro installation that shipped with the ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD, I ran some benchmarks of it for comparing the state of Ubuntu 23.10.
The same laptop was (obviously) used for all testing with the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U processor and Radeon RX 780M (RDNA3) graphics, 64GB of LPDDR5X system memory, 2.8K OLED display, and 1TB Kioxia NVMe SSD.
No system BIOS changes or other non-default changes were made over the course of the testing in just wanting to see how the performance compares of Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft Windows on this AMD Zen 4 laptop.
When it comes to creator software like Blender, Linux continues to perform significantly better than Windows 11.
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That’s pretty cool, many benchmarks were run! Although I wish they would compare Linux Vulkan to Windows dx12 instead so it’s an actual use case
I still don’t get what purpose this serves, comparing for the sake of circlejerking.
I experience people telling me the computer runs slower on Linux every day, good to have yet another, updated, link to prove otherwise.
YMMV, but here are some reasons
- Some people prefer to use Linux.
- Some software runs better on Linux than Windows or Mac (e.g. Docker runs natively on Linux but on Windows and Mac the Docker desktop creates a Linux VM to run Docker on).
- You have a portable, local development environment without Virtual Machines.
I have a laptop that belongs to my employer and a personal Linux laptop. It is quicker to use the Linux machine than to work out if I can now install WSL 2 or find a Linux instance to do some Linux work.
