Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake
For creator workloads especially Linux can deliver the heavier performance gains over Windows.
Even for the single-threaded workloads like audio encoding were some nice performance benefits to using Ubuntu Linux with the Linux 6.19 kernel over Windows 11.
Even with the proprietary renderers were consistent performance benefits to Linux on this Panther Lake laptop.
Across the wide range of both graphics and CPU native benchmarks carried out, Linux was around 9% faster than Windows 11 as shipped by MSI on this Core Ultra X7 358H laptop. Windows had some heavy performance leads with the Vulkan graphics and compute benchmarks compared to Linux while the OpenGL benchmarks were more competitive between the operating systems and their different GPU driver stacks. Under the CPU workloads is where Linux continued dominating pretty much across the board. The Linux CPU performance is in good shape for this 16-core Core Ultra X7 "Panther Lake" laptop. That was good to see considering back in December with the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 was finding Windows 11 outperforming Linux for that Arrow Lake H laptop. Typically Linux delivers strong gains over Windows for CPU performance especially for the creator/multi-threaded type workloads and good to see this continuing for Panther Lake at least with this particular MSI Prestige 14 laptop I have been using for all of my Panther Lake testing thus far.
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