Performance Comparison Between Ubuntu8.04 and XP SP3

Article Title: Performance Comparison Between Ubuntu8.04 and XP SP3. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

Currently, many open-source cross-platform software are available, which makes the performance of Linux and Windows software comparable. The performance of the software in Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP SP3 is compared by Hammed Saleh.

The tests are mainly about multimedia performance and hard disk performance. The former is mainly about the performance tests of software such as Blender and Avidemux, and the latter is mainly about RAR and ClamAV under the command line. The results show that, XP greatly surpasses Ubuntu in multimedia, while Ubuntu is more advantageous in IO-related programs-although Ubuntu was a ATA Hard Disk during the test and XP was on a SATA hard disk.

In addition, he also wrote a script to compare the multi-task performance of the two. As a result, Ubuntu is far ahead of XP.

Test Platform:

CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 5600 +
Motherboard: MSI K9N Neo V3 nForce560
Memory: 2 GB dual DDR2-6400 (800)
Hard drive (Windows XP): WD 160 GB SATA150
Hard drive (Ubuntu 8.04): Maxtor 160 GB ata.pdf
Graphics GeForce 8600GT
Both operating systems are installed with the latest patches.