Performance Comparison Between Ubuntu8.04 and windowssp3 SP3 (group chart)

Currently, many open-source cross-platform software are available, which makes the performance of Linux and Windows software comparable. The performance of the software under Ubuntu8.04 and Windows XP SP3 is compared by hammedsaleh. 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 Ub

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.

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.

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.

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 technical details:

ClamAV:

Engine version: 0.92.1

Known viruses: 288170

Single Task:

Scanned directoracle ies: 1035

Scanned files: 16297

Data scanned: 3708.96 MB

Multi-Task:

Scanned directories: 15

Scanned files: 171

Data scanned: 1387.55 MB

Avidemux 2.4.1

Test1: Converting DV (MPEG2) clip to MP4 (x264 (2-pass, 1024 kbps)/AAC)

Test2: Converting MJPEG clip to MP4 (x264 (2-pass, 1024 kbps)/AAC)

LAME 3.97

Encoding Test: 44: 58 495 mb wav to VBR MP3

Lame-V 0-m j-q 0-s 48-vbr-new 1.wav 1.mp3

Decoding Test: 44: 58 72 MB MP3 256 Kbps VBR to WAV

Lame-decode B .mp3 decode.wav

Transcoding Test: 44: 58 72 MB MP3 256 Kbps VBR to standard MP3