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Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL Performance On Kabylake - Summer 2017

Lastly are some synthetic OpenGL test cases via GpuTest.

In some of these synthetic tests, the Linux performance is in line with Windows 10 while in other cases Windows is maintaining a slight lead over the tested Linux operating systems.

It would have been lovely to see Intel's Linux graphics stack out-performing the proprietary Windows driver, but at least with Kabylake, that is still not the case. In the best case scenarios for this OpenGL comparison, the Linux performance was very close to Windows 10 but in other scenarios (particularly that weren't too GPU-demanding), the Windows performance was still measurably faster.

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