Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: One of the performances I was looking to run on a Framework 16 laptop was to see how Linux would perform against Microsoft Windows 11 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. I recently queued up a benchmark to compare the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 and the near-final version of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this laptop to a fully updated Microsoft Windows 11 installation. Our Framework 16 review unit consisted of an 8-core/16-thread AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Zen 4 SoC with Radeon RX 7700S graphics, a 512GB SN810 NVMe SSD, MediaTek MT7922 WiFi, and a 2560 x 1600 display.
During the few months I tested Framework 16, primarily on Linux, it worked very well. There is also a Windows 11 partition that ships with the Framework, so after updating that installation, we were able to make some interesting comparisons with the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04. The same Framework 16 AMD laptop was used for all tests to examine out-of-the-box performance across Microsoft Windows 11, Ubuntu 23.10, and near-final Ubuntu 24.04. […]
Of the 101 benchmarks run on all three operating systems using a Framework 16 laptop, Ubuntu 24.04 was fastest in 67% of those tests, with the older Ubuntu 23.10 leading with 22% (typically 24.04 ), followed closely by Microsoft Windows. 11 was the top choice 10% of the time… Taking the geographic average of all 101 benchmark results, Ubuntu 23.10 was 16% faster than Microsoft Windows 11, while Ubuntu 24.04 was faster than Ubuntu Linux 3% better performance on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS laptop than Windows 11 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS laptop. Ubuntu 24.04 seems to be very good in terms of performance and a stable version is expected to be released next week.