Ubuntu 22.04 performance nears Windows 11

Windows 11 comparisons with Ubuntu and other Linux distributions were the daily ranking. Microsoft’s system managed to get a mixed performance against these distros, showing that it still has a long way to go.

A new comparison came to show the good performance of Ubuntu 22.04, which had a hit with Linux 5.19. It is much closer to Windows 11 and therefore closer to mastering this area of ​​interest to many users.

Ubuntu is getting closer to Windows 11
Phoronix is ​​dedicated to comparing the performance of Linux systems with Windows 11. It makes good use of a series of benchmark tests and thus evaluates what each system offers.  Latest version of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS against Windows 11.
For a fair assessment, the same hardware, Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 3, with a known default configuration, was used:

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U with Radeon 680M
16 GB LPDDR5-6400
512GB Micron NVMe SSD
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Linux kernel 5.15.0
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Linux 5.19.1
Windows 11 Pro

This new test now uses Linux 5.19 and follows a recent one.  This used Linux 5.18 on a system with Intel Alder Lake and showed that Linux closed the space available for Windows.
Linux kernel 5.19 improves performance
First, browser benchmark tests were run and the results were mixed in the case of Google Chrome.  While tests like WebXPRT show gains of about 50%, others like Basemark don't show significant improvements, putting Windows 11 ahead.
However, in the case of Firefox, Linux 5.19 showed better overall performance, even outperforming Windows 11. Although browser benchmarks showed the most improvement in the new 5.19 kernel, the remaining tests are a bit confusing.
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For example, in the LuxCoreRender Physically Based Rendering (PBR) test, Linux 5.19 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS shows no improvement.  In fact, the performance does drop quite a bit in fact and depending on the landscape in use, Ubuntu and Windows 11 are shocking in some aspects.
Interestingly, in the JPEG image encoding test, the Ubuntu test system appears to be ahead of Windows 11 when the encoding speed is lower.  However, Windows 11 is speeded up as the encryption speed increases.



				
			



				
			



Meanwhile, in the compression test using the Zstandard data compression algorithm, Windows 11 is significantly ahead of Linux.  In gaming tests, Windows performance on OpenGL is awful over AMD.  This may change with the upcoming WDDM 3.1 Radeon driver, which shows gains of up to 55%.
In the Yamagi Quake II test below, the OpenGL API seems to work very well in the case of Windows 11. However, Vulkan's performance doesn't even come close to that.  You can find all the results of these tests in more detail On the Phoronix website.