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Preview: OS X 10.10 Yosemite vs. Ubuntu Linux GPU Performance

With Nexuiz the Intel OpenGL performance on OS X Yosemite was unchanged compared to OS X 10.9.4 and for this game the performance on OS X matched that of Ubuntu with the very latest development drivers.

For the basic Urban Terror open-source game, the performance on Ubuntu Linux was much greater with the Yosemite results being unchanged compared to OS X 10.9.4.