- Windows 11 25H2 has been completed through its performance stages
- Based on a package of 40 benchmarks it is not faster than 24 hours
- Actually performance is a dead heat but it can be expected as 25h2 is a minor update that makes no major changes
Windows 11 25H2 will not be faster than version 24H2 with regard to its general performance, according to some fresh tests – although this should not come as a surprise.
Phoronix.com, a place that focused on all things Linux, conducted a series of tests (marked by Toms Hardware) that compared the performance of Windows 11 25H2 with different flavors of Ubuntu as well as baseline tests of Windows 11 24H2.
Of course, we need to remember that Windows 11 25H2 is not out yet, so this comparative benchmarking uses the preview (almost done) the version of us (and I will come back to that point).
The tests – which span 40 different benchmarks of different applications, including luxury and Intel Open Image Denoise – show that Windows 11 25H2 has identical performance for version 24h2 based on the average of the results.
Ubuntu Linux was about 15% faster than the Windows versions in this battery of testing, in case you’re curious.
Benchmarking was done with fresh installations of these operating systems using warehouse settings on a PC with a Ryzen 9 9950X processor and 32 GB of RAM.
Analysis: No performance lifting yet but a more responsive operating system may not be far away
Of course, this is a preview version of Windows 11 25H2 as mentioned, so it’s not quite done yet. That said, it’s almost done – in fact, the latest taste of Windows 11 is now in its last test phase and is likely to be released next month. So realistically, there will be no meaningful difference in benefit levels between the current preview of release Build in the last stages of testing and the finished version of Windows 11 25h2.
However, this is no surprise as Microsoft has already made it clear that Windows 11 25H2 is a minor update. Of course, we get some new features, but not many of them – it’s not exactly clear what’s getting the cut yet. Under the cap, however, the operating system remains rather identical – and that is exactly what the dead heat in the performance effort that we see here indicates.
While it is a bound game with regard to the average of this package of benchmarks, it should be noted that Windows 11 25H2 is actually losing (to the tune of a percentage point or two) in some tests and victories at a nose in others to make things average, of course.
In any case, if you hoped that Windows 11 25H2 could possibly cure some of the hikers about responsiveness that you may have experienced with 24h2 or improve overall performance, you can forget that idea.
However, Microsoft is at least working to strengthen Windows 11’s performance levels in a new scheme of testers of us where logs are held when a PC experiences sluggish performance. The hope is that it will help Microsoft diagnose and solve problems around slow performance on Windows 11 in a timeless way so that the fingers crossed that work to be the case.
Since this year’s update is a small, the likelihood that by 2026 we will see major changes from Microsoft-might even Windows 12 or whatever the next iteration of the desktop operating system will be called-but I personally think we will wait longer for the next gene version).
