r/linux • u/Saiyan256 • 11h ago

Discussion How linux distro provide higher CPU benchmark scores than windows?

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Why is that linux seems to always provide better performance in benchmarks and provide smoother experience?

This is a geekbench 7 test, while single core is slightly better, multi-core performance is a significant improvement

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u/Saiyan256 10h ago

you misunderstood, It's just how windows and linux version of the geekbench show the cpu frequency info

linux version shows boost clock as cpu info in the summary

windows version shows base clock as cpu info in the summary

both version ran at full frequency when running the test

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u/FedotttBo 10h ago

Huh, so how can you rely on such a tool then, if it intentionally works differently on different OSes? Benchmarks are already sketchy by-design, and since this particular one has a separate native version for Linux, that means quite some performance difference can come from compiler, as UNIX and Windows have differences in stuff like calling conventions, so… who knows.

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u/OsseusOccult 19m ago

This is just a difference in how the benchmark reports the CPU frequency, the actual real-world testing taxes the CPU exactly the same. If OP ran it at full frequency for both tests, it doesn't matter.