Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 "Dual Edition" 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of native benchmarks.
👁 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Windows 11
In being curious if Linux had an inherent advantage to the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition with the larger cache compared to Microsoft Windows, I ran a fresh round of benchmarks on Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with all the latest software updates as of mid-May.
👁 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual retail package
The same system was used for all the testing (obviously) with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D/9950X3D2 running with an ASRock X870E Taichi motherboard, 2 x 16GB DDR5-6000 memory, 1TB Samsung 9100 PRO NVMe SSD, and Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics.
A variety of different CPU benchmarks were carried out for looking at the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9950X3D2 on both operating systems.