Huge Geekbench diffrence

[John98ZaKaRia]

Recently, as a CS student, I decided that I wanted so experience with Linux so I said the best way to do that is to install Ubuntu and try to make it my daily driver.

So I installed Ubuntu on my Laptop(with a recently purchased SSD).

I found ubuntu sluggish as hell.

I said maybe it is GNOME who is causing all the troubles.

So I ran a Geekbench on both OSs.
and OhBoy that is a huge diffrence in multicore performance o.o.

 

WindowsScore :https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/12499347

UbuntuScore: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/12499246

 

What can I do to improve Ubuntu?

[CharminUltraStrong]

From what I understand, I wouldn't find this too bothersome. Synthetic benchmarks aren't always truly indicative of real world performance. For example, synthetic benchmarks will show SSHD's as being slower than normal HDD's when in reality they are very close to SSD's as far as load/download time and general performance. In real world daily usage, SSHD's walk all over HDD's but synthetics will tell you otherwise. Whatever functions are run in this benchmark, some of them are probably more optimized for Windows so they'll run better there giving it a better score. I'd recommend purchasing DiRT 3 since it's cheap, is a sim-cade so it's more CPU intensive, has BUILT IN benchmarking and can be run on settings that can push the system if need be. Also, do note that the benchmark appears to be picking up only a portion of your available RAM in the ubuntu test which could also impact perf.

[John98ZaKaRia]

1 minute ago, CharminUltraStrong said:

From what I understand, I wouldn't find this too bothersome. Synthetic benchmarks aren't always truly indicative of real world performance. For example, synthetic benchmarks will show SSHD's as being slower than normal HDD's when in reality they are very close to SSD's as far as load/download time and general performance. In real world daily usage, SSHD's walk all over HDD's but synthetics will tell you otherwise. Whatever functions are run in this benchmark, some of them are probably more optimized for Windows so they'll run better there giving it a better score. I'd recommend purchasing DiRT 3 since it's cheap, is a sim-cade so it's more CPU intensive, has BUILT IN benchmarking and can be run on settings that can push the system if need be. Also, do note that the benchmark appears to be picking up only a portion of your available RAM in the ubuntu test which could also impact perf.

Ram isn't a problem because the usable RAM is 4,9
The issue is backed up by the fact that firefox struggles with 1080p videos on ubuntu

Things aren't as butterly smooth as in Windows

[CharminUltraStrong]

6 minutes ago, John98ZaKaRia said:

Ram isn't a problem because the usable RAM is 4,9
The issue is backed up by the fact that firefox struggles with 1080p videos on ubuntu

Things aren't as butterly smooth as in Windows

Hmm unfortunately I'm no Linux expert. From my surface level knowledge, assuming this is a laptop, it could be some weird hardware optimization.

[.Apex.]

57 minutes ago, John98ZaKaRia said:

Recently, as a CS student, I decided that I wanted so experience with Linux so I said the best way to do that is to install Ubuntu and try to make it my daily driver.

So I installed Ubuntu on my Laptop(with a recently purchased SSD). 

I found ubuntu sluggish as hell.

I said maybe it is GNOME who is causing all the troubles.

So I ran a Geekbench on both OSs.
and OhBoy that is a huge diffrence in multicore performance o.o.

From my experience it is Ubuntu that is messing with the clockspeed, my 8700K ran terribly in Ubuntu and i found out that even though i have a fixed overclock set up, Ubuntu would force a "power saving" mode, but after i disabled that manually, it ran smooth as butter.

(no clue if this applies to your case, or others)

[Sauron]

Geekbench isn't a reliable benchmark, but if it's sluggish you may have a problem.

 

Check if something is hogging your CPU with the gnome system monitor.

[wasab]

Yeah, Ubuntu is sluggish. Too many extensions and themes on the gnome desktop. You should disable them all. Vanilla gnome is quite fast. 

[bloodthirster]

Ubuntu's default desktop runs like molasses in winter (haven't used gnome in years so can comment on that). But here are some other things to be aware of:

#1 security mitigations for Intel (mainly, AMD not as much)

#2 CPU governors

#3 drivers for HW accel

 

As others have said, storage device and RAM can effect benchmarks but not really effect your daily experience much.  Although a difference in storage and RAM can make a machine feel completely different also so. 

 

[wasab]

Here is a video how to get back vanilla gnome. First remove Ubuntu dock extension and in the logon manage choose gnome.