Windows 11 25H2 Performance: No Improvement Over 24H2
Here’s a summary of the article:
Windows 11 25H2 Performance Disappoints:
Recent benchmarking by Phoronix shows that the upcoming Windows 11 25H2 update doesn’t offer any performance improvements over the current 24H2 version. Actually, it frequently enough underperformed compared to its predecessor.
ubuntu Outperforms windows:
Both current and upcoming versions of Ubuntu (24.0.3 LTS and 25.10) significantly outperformed Windows 11 25H2 in the same tests, by approximately 15% on average across 41 benchmarks.
Testing Setup:
The tests were conducted on a system with a Ryzen 9 9950X processor and 32GB of DDR5 memory, using applications like LuxCoreRender, Embree, Intel Open Image Denoise, OSPRay, and IndigoBench.
In short, the article suggests that Windows 11 25H2 doesn’t bring any noticeable performance gains and is still behind Linux (Ubuntu) in terms of performance.