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Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Review (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not that this is a surprise to some of us.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I wonder why they went with a version of Windows 11 Pro instead of Windows 11 Pro for workstations?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t used windows regularly since windows vista, is there an actual difference between those two version in performance?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It’s supposed to be tuned more toward heavy workflows, such as rendering and CAD. It has support for more RAM (6TB) and quad SMP along with ReFS, and SMB Direct.

I only found out about it because we needed a beastly set up for combining lidar and drone aerials in Autodesk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you buy that, or do you have to get it bundled with the machine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Turns out you can actually buy it. I was under the impression it was for OEMs only.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro-for-workstations/dg7gmgf0kr4m

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They said they tested using the version of Windows preinstalled by HP, as (presumably) HP would have fine-tuned it for the machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Preinstalled by the OEM? That sounds like it has Windows bloat and HP proprietary bloat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is there some reason to think that running Windows 11 Pro for Workstations would have made a difference in a CPU benchmark? I'm not seeing anything obvious on the feature list for that version that would make that be the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

ugh. does that allow more than one rdp I wonder?