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AMD Strix Point & Intel Lunar Lake: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 Linux Performance


Last month was a fresh look at the Intel Lunar Lake graphics performance between Windows and Linux while this article is Microsoft Windows 11 Pro vs.

This article is focused on the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro vs. Ubuntu Linux 25.04 performance on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura powered by the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V Lunar Lake SoC. The Intel Lunar Lake laptop (ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura) had the Core Ultra 7 258V 8-core processor with 32GB of onboard memory, and 512GB Samsung NVMe SSD. This was then compared to Ubuntu 25.04 with a clean install and all stock software packages while looking at the CPU performance across a range of workloads native to both Windows and Linux.

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