NVIDIA Gaming/GPU Performance: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 2 January 2023 at 11:20 AM EST. Page 6 of 8. 21 Comments.

Moving on now to some OpenCL and GPU compute benchmarking...

Windows vs. Linux - NVIDIA Benchmarks
Windows vs. Linux - NVIDIA Benchmarks
Windows vs. Linux - NVIDIA Benchmarks
Windows vs. Linux - NVIDIA Benchmarks
Windows vs. Linux - NVIDIA Benchmarks

With the Hashcat OpenCL benchmarks there was similar performance under both operating systems, which is to be expected given NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack is largely shared code across platforms.

Windows vs. Linux - NVIDIA Benchmarks

The OctaneBench renderer saw slightly better performance with the Ubuntu Linux runs.

Windows vs. Linux - NVIDIA Benchmarks

The Folding@Home benchmark with OpenCL saw much better performance on Linux than Windows 11.


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