Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 With Intel HD Graphics

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 30 October 2014 at 11:05 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 21 Comments.
Windows 8.1 vs Ubuntu 14.10 - Intel Graphics

First up with a classic OpenGL game, OpenArena, the performance under Ubuntu 14.10 and Windows 8.1 was virtually the same -- Linux was faster by one frame.

Windows 8.1 vs Ubuntu 14.10 - Intel Graphics

The frame timings were nearly identical too between Windows and Linux for this ioquake3 game.

Windows 8.1 vs Ubuntu 14.10 - Intel Graphics

When running Xonotic with low image quality settings, Windows 8.1 Pro was significantly faster than the Intel Linux driver found on Ubuntu 14.10 (Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3). Using the Linux 3.17 kernel and Mesa 10.4 did improve the situation in being 24% faster than the stock configuration of Ubuntu 14.10, but Windows 8.1 with the newest Windows driver remained 62% faster.


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