Tip: Linux LLM Inference 30-50% Faster Than Windows on Same Hardware — RTX 8000 48GB Benchmark

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A practitioner reports substantial inference speed improvements simply by switching from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on identical hardware (i9-9900K, RTX 8000 48GB, 64GB DDR4). With 173 upvotes and 87 comments confirming the pattern, the community consensus is that Linux CUDA drivers, memory management, and reduced OS overhead yield 30-50% faster token generation. For anyone running local inference on Windows, this is the single biggest free performance upgrade available.