Benchmarks show Windows 11 performs better than Linux on Intel’s 12 Gen Alder Lake processors
Under normal circumstances, the performance of the processor should be similar on different operating systems, but this situation is different on Intel’s 12th generation Alder Lake processor.
The reason is that Intel’s new processor adopts the big.LITTLE hybrid architecture and the call logic need to be optimized due to different processor cores.
Microsoft emphasized cooperation with Intel when Windows 11 was released, and the result of the cooperation was that the new Thread Director technology developed by Intel was compatible with Windows 11.
The fact is true: after benchmarking, the media found that with the same hardware combination, the performance of the Windows 11 system is better than that of Linux.
The well-known hardware website Phoronix uses Intel Core i9-12900K, ROG Z690E, CORSAIR 64GB DDR5-4400 memory for testing.
The overall test score of Windows 11 is higher than other Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 21.10, Fedora Workstation, and Clear Linux.
On the 104 benchmarks Phoronix performed, Windows 11 won by 45%, and this result is actually brought by Intel Thread Director.
There is some evidence that the mixed architecture of big.LITTLE leads to poor choice of Linux Kernel, so the optimal core processing tasks cannot always be used in terms of execution.
Intel has not concealed this. At the Windows 11 conference, Intel emphasized that the Thread Director technology helps the operating system always choose the correct core.
The thread director is a technology developed by Intel and Microsoft that allows the operating system to put the right process on the right core at the right time.
Intel and Microsoft have already reached cooperation in the development stage of Windows 11, so this new operating system thread scheduler is perfectly compatible with thread directors.
Intel stated that in order to achieve a high level of coordination that can improve real-world performance, Intel has cooperated with Microsoft to integrate this revolutionary feature into Windows 11.
The benchmark test shows that the performance of the Windows 11 system on Alder Lake is 15% higher than that of the Windows 10 system and there is still room for optimization.
Intel is currently cooperating with Linux system developers to optimize performance, but it seems that Linux has not yet completed the optimization so it can’t play the best performance.
