Windows 10 vs. W10Privacy Benchmarks With WSL Tests for a future article on Phoronix. Stock: Windows 10: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB 3200MHz Corsair CMK16GX4M4C3200C16, Disk: 238GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11264MB (1911/5505MHz), Network: Intel Connection I219-V OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 17134, Kernel: 10.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 398.11 (24.21.13.9811), File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 238GB OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: wslfs W10Privacy: Windows 10: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB 3200MHz Corsair CMK16GX4M4C3200C16, Disk: 238GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11264MB (1911/5505MHz), Network: Intel Connection I219-V OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 17134, Kernel: 10.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 398.11 (24.21.13.9811), Compiler: GCC 7.1.0, File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 238GB OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: wslfs SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 67.97 |========================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 105.48 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 21.49 |======== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 15.34 |====== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 395.00 |============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 356.95 |========================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 101200 |=========================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 107800 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 288 |============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 309 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 73800 |============================================ W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 79267 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 326 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 340 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 83500 |============================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 87167 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 291 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 305 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 74533 |============================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 78000 |=============================================== Diskspd 2.0.17 Threads Per Target: 4 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 100M - Block Size: 2MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 . 1043.97 |================================================== Diskspd 2.0.17 Threads Per Target: 4 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 100M - Block Size: 2MB IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 . 521.99 |=================================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 3347 |= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 16904 |====== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 6333 |== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 122765 |======================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 98 |===== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 247 |============ W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 210 |=========== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 859 |=========================================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 325.16 |======================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 216.21 |========================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 334.24 |======================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 213.74 |========================== BioShock Infinite Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 135.12 |============================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 139.38 |============================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 95.73 |============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 97.42 |=============================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 96.77 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 96.20 |=============================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Points > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 13483 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 13475 |=============================================== FFTE 6.0 Test: N=256, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 . 8186.98 |================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 7107 |======== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 35909 |========================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 7038 |======== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 34459 |======================================= Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 3433720 |======================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 3227833 |===================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 3415648 |======================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 3219213 |===================================== Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 29573267600 |============================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 34285442167 |=================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 21836636433 |====================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 24401486500 |========================= Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 722084 |=================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 831461 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 729892 |=================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 831723 |======================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 2582.75 |======================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 2591.75 |======================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 2588.03 |======================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 2576.54 |======================================= Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 13685.47 |===================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 14047.70 |====================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 13753.10 |===================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 14058.10 |====================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 7964.33 |======================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 3544.19 |================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 7976.42 |======================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 3545.67 |================= CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 15551.32 |==================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 29684.91 |====================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 15564.63 |==================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 29705.98 |====================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 48222.32 |====================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 31162.75 |========================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 48293.85 |====================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 31161.76 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 660.95 |======================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 668.68 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 660.99 |======================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 668.53 |======================================== Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 8248865 |======================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 8321894 |======================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 8247392 |======================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 8335584 |======================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 22349 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 22342 |=============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 55864333 |============================================ W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 55978000 |============================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 353241 |============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 353814 |============================================== x264 2018-02-05 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 152.62 |======================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 116.61 |============================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 153.24 |======================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 117.02 |=============================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 140 |========================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 143 |=========================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 140 |========================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 144 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 145 |======================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 160 |=========================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 143 |====================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 158 |========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 173 |======================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 188 |=========================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 173 |======================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 187 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 208 |========================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 211 |=========================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 208 |========================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 212 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 95 |============================================ Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 95 |============================================ W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 95 |============================================ W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 95 |============================================ 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 88040 |========================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 59964 |============================ W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 86648 |======================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 60467 |============================ Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 46156500 |====================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 45854033 |====================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 45490204 |===================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 45864311 |====================================== ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 2091 | Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 669011 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 2102 | W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 652074 |======================================= Timed LLVM Compilation 4.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 285.37 |====================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 269.49 |==================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 296.82 |======================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 219.29 |============================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 5.69 |========================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 5.46 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 5.68 |========================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 5.44 |======================================== Primesieve 6.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 14.83 |===================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 16.50 |========================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 14.83 |===================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 16.46 |========================================= Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 50.94 |========================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 49.19 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 50.85 |========================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 49.17 |======================================== Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 49.16 |=============================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 64.82 |========================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 48.37 |=============================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 64.92 |========================================= Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 126.51 |======================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 107.44 |================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 123.13 |======================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 107.24 |================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 0.18149154 |=========================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 0.24632878 |==================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 0.17685838 |========================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 0.21281420 |=============================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 0.02840979 |==================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 0.01435530 |================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 0.02730895 |=================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 0.01158424 |=============== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.3 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 174.80 |======================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 173.78 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 174.92 |======================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 174.02 |======================================== Darktable 2.4.1 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 0.44 |================================================ W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 0.43 |=============================================== Darktable 2.4.1 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 0.48 |================================================ W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 0.46 |============================================== Darktable 2.4.1 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 0.47 |================================================ W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 0.47 |================================================ GIMP 2.9.8 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 19.38 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 18.54 |============================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 18.42 |============================================= GIMP 2.9.8 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 18.52 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 17.76 |============================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 17.85 |============================================= GIMP 2.9.8 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ...... 28.39 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 28.14 |=============================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 . 27.94 |============================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 1318 |========================================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 1229 |======================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 1318 |========================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 1225 |======================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 348329 |======================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 598893 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 355028 |======================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 600171 |======================================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 13.89 |=========================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 21.02 |========================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 10.29 |==================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 8.19 |================ OSBench Test: Create Files us Per Event < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 1184.30 |====================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 2067.74 |======================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 164.04 |=== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 343.33 |====== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 75.70 |========================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 114.08 |======================================= W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 79.76 |=========================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 116.57 |======================================== OSBench Test: Launch Programs us Per Event < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 1172.37 |======================================= Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 1050.86 |=================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 540.97 |================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 544.25 |================== OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better Stock: Windows 10 ............ 90.43 |=========================== Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 133.08 |======================================== W10Privacy: Windows 10 ....... 91.79 |============================ W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 132.82 |======================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 9.04 |========================================== W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 7.99 |===================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 13.93 |========================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 13.19 |======================================= GIMP 2.8.22 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL ...... 22.94 |========================================= W10Privacy: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 22.42 |======================================== VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.7.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock: Ubuntu 18.04 WSL . 15.62 |==============================================