Phoronix compared the performance of the AMD Ryzen 7 CPU on Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and six Linux distributions A quote from the article:

Our latest Windows vs. Linux benchmarking interest has been seeing how the AMD Ryzen 7 performance compares with the latest operating systems / Linux distributions. We have recently posted some Windows 10 vs. Windows WSL vs. Windows Linux benchmarks, relative Spectre/Meltdown mitigation impact tests on Windows vs. Linux, and other benchmarks but has mostly been done with Intel or server hardware. For those curious, today's tests were done with an AMD Ryzen 7 1700 platform.

 AMD Ryzen 7 Performance On Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Six Linux Distributions