Windows 10 WSL Benchmarks 2019 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on up-to-date Microsoft Windows 10 installation as of January 2019. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. 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: 466GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB (1392/3505MHz) OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 17763, Kernel: 10.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 417.35 (25.21.14.1735), File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Ubuntu 18.04: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 466GB OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: wslfs, System Layer: WSL openSUSE Leap 42.3: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 466GB OS: openSUSE Leap 42.3, Kernel: 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: WSLFS, System Layer: WSL Debian Stretch: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 466GB OS: Debian GNU/Linux 9, Kernel: 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: wslfs, System Layer: WSL WLinux: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 466GB OS: WLinux, Kernel: 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: wslfs, System Layer: WSL WLinux Enterprise: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 466GB OS: Scientific Linux 7.6, Kernel: 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: WSLFS, System Layer: WSL SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 92.42 |================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 127.00 |=============================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 132.00 |================================================= Debian Stretch ..... 131.00 |================================================= WLinux ............. 134.00 |================================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 132.00 |================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ...... 105 |===================================================== Debian Stretch .... 107 |====================================================== WLinux ............ 104 |==================================================== WLinux Enterprise . 108 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ...... 374 |===================================================== Debian Stretch .... 378 |====================================================== WLinux ............ 359 |=================================================== WLinux Enterprise . 325 |============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ...... 108 |===================================================== Debian Stretch .... 107 |==================================================== WLinux ............ 106 |==================================================== WLinux Enterprise . 111 |====================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 14.60 |======================================= openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 19.03 |=================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 14.32 |====================================== WLinux ............. 14.32 |====================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 19.11 |=================================================== NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 1.74387 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 0.99027 |============================ openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 0.99186 |============================ Debian Stretch ..... 0.99086 |============================ WLinux ............. 0.99222 |============================ WLinux Enterprise .. 0.99228 |============================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 12.27 |========================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 14.36 |================================================= Debian Stretch ..... 14.97 |=================================================== WLinux ............. 11.99 |========================================= WLinux Enterprise .. 14.50 |================================================= Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Windows 10 ......... 8608790 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 8732768 |================================================ openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 8853104 |================================================= Debian Stretch ..... 8753592 |================================================ WLinux ............. 8761905 |================================================ WLinux Enterprise .. 8899159 |================================================= x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Windows 10 ......... 137 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 113 |============================================ openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 116 |============================================= Debian Stretch ..... 113 |============================================ asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better Windows 10 ......... 49319675 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 49468429 |=============================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 50386142 |================================================ Debian Stretch ..... 49672075 |=============================================== WLinux ............. 48664191 |============================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 49758260 |=============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 87.32 |================================================ openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 93.29 |=================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 88.22 |================================================ WLinux ............. 88.21 |================================================ WLinux Enterprise .. 81.50 |============================================= Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 73.62 |=============================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 64.88 |========================================= Debian Stretch ..... 78.71 |================================================== WLinux ............. 80.65 |=================================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 66.03 |========================================== Primesieve 7.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 12.89 |========================================= Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 16.08 |=================================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 15.87 |================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 15.96 |=================================================== WLinux ............. 15.96 |=================================================== XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 87.94 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 87.76 |=================================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 87.40 |=================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 88.18 |=================================================== WLinux ............. 87.60 |=================================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 88.22 |=================================================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 10.65 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 11.73 |================================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 11.54 |================================================= Debian Stretch ..... 11.54 |================================================= WLinux ............. 11.97 |=================================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 11.62 |================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 9.94 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 10.66 |================================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 10.78 |=================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 10.16 |================================================ WLinux ............. 10.81 |=================================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 10.58 |================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 11.20 |===================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 27.22 |================================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 27.69 |=================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 27.22 |================================================== WLinux ............. 27.68 |=================================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 27.70 |=================================================== Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 141 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 117 |============================================ openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 117 |============================================ Debian Stretch ..... 117 |============================================ WLinux ............. 116 |============================================ PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 1304 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 948 |====================================== openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 1250 |================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 1225 |================================================= WLinux ............. 899 |==================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Windows 10 ......... 365276 |============================ Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 628838 |================================================ openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 512974 |======================================= Debian Stretch ..... 516330 |======================================== WLinux ............. 651581 |================================================== WLinux Enterprise .. 235383 |================== Chaos Group V-RAY 1.1.0 Mode: CPU Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows 10 ......... 47.41 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ....... 45.46 |================================================= openSUSE Leap 42.3 . 47.32 |=================================================== Debian Stretch ..... 47.10 |=================================================== WLinux ............. 45.22 |================================================= WLinux Enterprise .. 46.69 |==================================================