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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
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I experience people telling me the computer runs slower on Linux every day, good to have yet another, updated, link to prove otherwise.
But it doesn’t prove much, because the benchmarks were run on different hardware according to the spec image. Maybe not all hardware was detected by the Linux benchmarks, but it does make it hard to draw straight conclusions from this.
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.
