Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
With Blender 5.1 there were also larger relative gains from Windows 11 to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.
Ditto for the Indigo renderer.
There wasn't much of a difference observed between Llana.cpp on the two operating systems.
When taking the geometric mean of all the benchmarks ran on both operating systems, going from Microsoft Windows 11 Pro to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS meant +15.3% performance for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. Meanwhile with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D was +10.2% better performance on Linux. Or put another way, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 was less than 1% faster than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D in the same workloads on Windows 11 but under Ubuntu Linux this Dual Edition CPU was 5% faster than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Linux allows for better performance out of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 with its hefty cache size. This quantifies and helps explain the Linux performance advantage with I having been enthusiastically enjoying the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition while under Windows the reviews tended to be less eager for this first Dual Edition Zen 5 processor. It will be interesting to see how the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and other parts do with the upcoming Cache Aware Scheduling and other new upstream Linux kernel innovations.
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