Ubuntu 25.04 vs. Fedora Workstation 42 Performance On AMD Strix Point
Out of 153 benchmarks run on both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 from this Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 with AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360, Ubuntu 25.04 had more first place finishes at around 60% wins.
But as you can see when looking at the geo mean across all of the benchmarks conducted, it was a virtual dead heat between the two of them.
Both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 were running well from this AMD-powered Lenovo ThinkPad laptop. These results largely jive with what I've been seeing in my testing so far on other AMD and Intel desktops/laptops. With both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 powered by the Linux 6.14 kernel and other similar components, often times it's a very tight race with healthy competition between these leading Linux distributions. Where there did tend to be differences between the two came down to Fedora 42 leveraging GCC 15 already while Ubuntu 25.04 continues with GCC 14 stable.
And for those wondering, there wasn't any measurable thermal or CPU power consumption difference between Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 on this Ryzen-powered ThinkPad.
See all of the side-by-side benchmarks in full via this result file. Stay tuned for more Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 benchmarks with these new Linux OS releases coming out next week.
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