I wonder why they went with a version of Windows 11 Pro instead of Windows 11 Pro for workstations?
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I haven’t used windows regularly since windows vista, is there an actual difference between those two version in performance?
It’s supposed to be tuned more toward heavy workflows, such as rendering and CAD. It has support for more RAM (6TB) and quad SMP along with ReFS, and SMB Direct.
I only found out about it because we needed a beastly set up for combining lidar and drone aerials in Autodesk.
Can you buy that, or do you have to get it bundled with the machine?
Turns out you can actually buy it. I was under the impression it was for OEMs only.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro-for-workstations/dg7gmgf0kr4m
Thanks!
They said they tested using the version of Windows preinstalled by HP, as (presumably) HP would have fine-tuned it for the machine.
Preinstalled by the OEM? That sounds like it has Windows bloat and HP proprietary bloat.
Do a Gentoo test with correct compilation parameters! Or just Arch, Fedora or Opensuse Tumbleweed okay.
Let's see Paul Allen's Threadripper performance...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Going back to the original AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors, Linux has long possessed a performance lead over Microsoft Windows.
With Linux typically being the dominant OS of HPC systems and other large core count servers, the Linux kernel scheduler has coped better than various flavors of Windows when dealing with high core count processors.
Ubuntu 23.10 was run for providing a clean, out-of-the-box look at this common desktop/workstation Linux distribution.
The HP Z6 G5 A for all testing was configured with the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX at default frequencies, 8 x 16GB DDR5-5200 Hynix RDIMMs, Samsung MZVL21T0HCLR-00BH1 NVMe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX A4000 16GB graphics.
A full review on the HP Z6 G5 A Threadripper workstation will be published in a separate article on Phoronix in early December.
From there the up-to-date Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 (H2'23) was tested against Ubuntu 23.10 with its stable release updates.
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