Comparison Windows 11 vs Linux - generation speed and a big time difference

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This is not very scientific, as it was just a simple prompt passed and I did not make any captures for proof yet.

But I chose to install Linux (not WSL or virtualization, but a full blown Linux installation on my NVMe).

I used a specific model and a prompt consisting of 6 parameters.

On Linux Mint v21.1, generation (after priming the model) took 8 seconds with 20 steps standard settings.
With face restoration and 35 steps, it took 16 seconds.

On Windows 11, the first trial took 5 seconds.
With face restoration and 35 steps, took 9 seconds.

For this trial, the same extensions were installed as well as the same Pyhton module versions and CUDA versions.

This is pretty crazy.

BTW, I use a Geforce 3060 OC with the same OC settings mounted in an ASUS Prime H670-PLUS d4 with an i7-13700K processor and 32 gigabytes of DDR-4400 RAM.

The Linux nVidia drivers were binaries provided by nVidia (the runfile) and CUDA was also installed from there, not from apt.

What do you think? I think we need to do some more intensive testing here.