Windows 10 WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux Benchmarks Windows 10 WSL benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com. Windows 10 April WSL: Processor: Intel Core i7-8086K @ 4.01GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 110GB OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: wslfs Windows 10 October WSL: Processor: Intel Core i7-8086K @ 4.01GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 110GB OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-18252-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: wslfs Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS: Processor: Intel Core i7-8086K @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A (1002 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 118GB INTEL SSDPEK1W120GA, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Clear Linux 25550: Processor: Intel Core i7-8086K @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A (1002 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 8th Gen Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 16GB Voyager 3.0 + 118GB INTEL SSDPEK1W120GA, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux OS 25550, Kernel: 4.18.13-644.native (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.0-devel (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 62.24 |=============================================== Windows 10 October WSL . 59.83 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 2.62 |== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 95.06 |== Windows 10 October WSL . 98.61 |== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 1321.27 |============================ Clear Linux 25550 ...... 2096.66 |============================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 6.37 | Windows 10 October WSL . 6.52 | Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 661.60 |============================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 620.69 |=========================================== Tinymembench 2018-05-28 Standard Memcpy MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 18183 |============================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 18269 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 18560 |============================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 18996 |=============================================== Tinymembench 2018-05-28 Standard Memset MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 35928 |========================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 36497 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 36473 |========================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 41106 |=============================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 104.00 |============================================== Windows 10 October WSL . 104.00 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 98.75 |============================================ Clear Linux 25550 ...... 45.48 |==================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 31.73 |=============================================== Windows 10 October WSL . 31.32 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 29.30 |=========================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 30.51 |============================================= NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 2.16320 |============================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 2.16693 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 2.15702 |============================================= Clear Linux 25550 ...... 2.15668 |============================================= FFTW 3.3.6 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 512 Mflops > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 27856 |============================= Windows 10 October WSL . 28775 |============================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 40975 |========================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 45815 |=============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 3.65 |================================================ Windows 10 October WSL . 3.59 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 2.99 |======================================= Clear Linux 25550 ...... 2.76 |==================================== x264 2018-07-28 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 70.84 |============================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 69.93 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 72.80 |============================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 73.79 |=============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 169.00 |============================================== Windows 10 October WSL . 163.00 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 87.66 |======================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 85.70 |======================= Primesieve 7.1 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 38.09 |=============================================== Windows 10 October WSL . 38.06 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 35.27 |============================================ Clear Linux 25550 ...... 35.06 |=========================================== Node.js Octane Benchmark Score > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 50811 |============================================ Windows 10 October WSL . 50308 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 53007 |============================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 54321 |=============================================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 94.56 |=============================================== Windows 10 October WSL . 94.42 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 94.29 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 80.52 |======================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 7.78 |================================================ Windows 10 October WSL . 7.71 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 7.59 |=============================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 7.23 |============================================= OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 1967 |================================================ Windows 10 October WSL . 1957 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 1979 |================================================ Clear Linux 25550 ...... 1975 |================================================ Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 268 |================================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 270 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 267 |================================================ Clear Linux 25550 ...... 260 |=============================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 835 |================================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 839 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 838 |================================================= Clear Linux 25550 ...... 800 |=============================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 722419 |================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 721861 |================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 809172 |===================================== Clear Linux 25550 ...... 997295 |============================================== BRL-CAD 7.28.0 VGR Performance Metric VGR Performance Metric > Higher Is Better Windows 10 April WSL ... 87418 |============================================= Windows 10 October WSL . 87229 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ..... 87041 |============================================= Clear Linux 25550 ...... 91499 |===============================================