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Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

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Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

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Win11 its such a dumpster fire they had to stop selling Win10 licenses to force people to upgrade. Add to that porting copilot to Win10 because there aren't enough Win11 users around.

> they had to stop selling Win10 licenses to force people to upgrade.

To be fair, at some point, you must stop selling old licenses for the software you no longer develop...

Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

#13

performance means nothing if the software you require doesn't run on it

We are at a stage where games built for Windows actually run better on Linux so this argument will probably not be relevant for too long anymore.

Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

#14

Not surprised though, with AMD being able to patch the Linux kernel and scheduler to its liking in order to squeeze out the maximum performance for it's architecture, versus depending on Microsoft to have the good will to figure it out on their own dime. I'd be curious if the businesses buying these $20k+, 96-core, HEDT workstations actually do run Windows on them in order for this to be that big of a problem for Mic…

One of the major markets for these would be visual art studios. They aren't generally Linux shops.

The improvements coming for Wayland's HDR/color management are likely to help with that, as the features they're aiming for appears to beat Window's more slapdash implementation with per-window color management, where window contents are accurately tonemapped and composited within the widest color space the monitor supports.

Adobe would need to be incentivized to port their suite over for it to be taken seriously, but maybe Wine could bridge that gap at first.

Ah, the mythical Linux Desktop. One day...

Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

#15

Not surprised though, with AMD being able to patch the Linux kernel and scheduler to its liking in order to squeeze out the maximum performance for it's architecture, versus depending on Microsoft to have the good will to figure it out on their own dime. I'd be curious if the businesses buying these $20k+, 96-core, HEDT workstations actually do run Windows on them in order for this to be that big of a problem for Mic…

Pretty sure Microsoft is very cooperative on working with AMD and others on this stuff, it may just take a little longer in this case.

Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

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post #7

Win11 its such a dumpster fire they had to stop selling Win10 licenses to force people to upgrade. Add to that porting copilot to Win10 because there aren't enough Win11 users around.

> they had to stop selling Win10 licenses to force people to upgrade. To be fair, at some point, you must stop selling old licenses for the software you no longer develop...

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Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

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I have two rigs here at home. A 12700k gaming box with a high end Nvme disk. Also, a 13900k workstation with Nvme disks as well. The gaming box runs Windows 11, and it feels generally snappy until I’m navigating the filesystem or dealing with compression. On the flip side the other box is running Debian 12 and feels significantly faster. Could be 12th gen vs 13th gen but I don’t think that’s the case.

Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

#18
I just did a mind meld of what one needed to do to get a M3 performance wise through using NVIDIA and Intel chips...

Take away a 13900 or 14000 intel CPU and an NVIDIA 4090 will give m3 performance...cheap ipower tower at best buy for $1800...see

https://fredgrott.substack.com/p/beating-m3-in-a-flutter-dev...

Had to figure out which way to go with the assumption that production app builds was through cloud...currently thread ripper cannot beat intel 13900 and 14000. Given the different boost setups not sure why the difference.

Re: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

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I have two rigs here at home. A 12700k gaming box with a high end Nvme disk. Also, a 13900k workstation with Nvme disks as well. The gaming box runs Windows 11, and it feels generally snappy until I’m navigating the filesystem or dealing with compression. On the flip side the other box is running Debian 12 and feels significantly faster. Could be 12th gen vs 13th gen but I don’t think that’s the case.

I have a Zen 2 Threadripper box that I dual boot (it's a workstation for coding that I sometimes play games on), and I can confirm. I don't know what the exact technical reason is or why nobody in Redmond is embarrassed. But anything relating to the filesystem is simply dog-slow on Windows, and the more high-end your system is, the more this becomes the major bottleneck.
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