OPERATING SYSTEMS
Over 100 benchmarks on the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Framework 16 have shown that Ubuntu 24.04 seriously outperforms Windows 11.
Benchmarks performed on Ubuntu 23.10, Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows 11 have come down strongly in favour of Noble Numbat. The results, which can be viewed at https://openbenchmarking.org, are the result of 104 different tests. In over two thirds of these (67%), Ubuntu 24.04 came out fastest. Ubuntu 23.10 was a respectable silver medallist (22%) and Windows 11 took the bronze at just 10%.
Given how entrenched Linux and Windows fans can be, these statistics have provoked controversy in online discussion groups.
Much of this is around the claim that Ubuntu 24.04 is 20% faster than Windows 11. The figure was obtained by analysing the geometric mean of all results, showing that Ubuntu 23.10 was 16% faster on average than Windows 11. Ubuntu 24.04 was around 3% faster again, hence the claim that the OS is 20% faster than Windows on an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS laptop.
In the case of each OS, the benchmarks were run on a clean install, using default settings. During the tests, the laptop was connected to AC power and set to balanced mode in the OS.
The choice of the Framework 16 laptop is surprising, given that the series has drawn criticism from tech websites such as Arstechnica for a relatively slow software and firmware update process, as well as the long-awaited Linux-based BIOS updater, which at the time of writing, still isn’t available.
Online commenters have also expressed surprise that the results are so divergent, given that many of the tests are CPU-based. This might be explained by AMD’s c
