Ubuntu Linux Gaming Performance Mostly On Par With Windows 8.1

Lolwut? Win8 just broke 8%. Win7 has 46%, and is growing faster than win8.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/01/win...-in-september/

My bad! I wanted to say win8 market share is much lower.

[linuxforall]

Interesting as Ubuntu 13.10 ships with pstate disabled. Wonder if the results would have been different if the driver had been enabled instead of ondemand.

[rudl]

CPU limit hit.

And linux is in general a little bit faster when it comes to cpu performance...
... but just a guess

[blackout23]

Can anyone explain why the high-end NVIDIA cards (GTX 680) perform particularly good on Linux?

[mitcoes]

Suggestion: Add wine tests

Not only native vs native benchmarks also native vs wine - 3 columns - would be great
Where we probably would watch sometimes that wine performs better than native GNU/Linux and a little bit worse than native MS WOS 8.1

[verde]

who cares about xonotic and openarena..................

[Pajn]

you can measure FPS in dota2, no problem. There's a -dev launch flag that adds a dev console. I'm just not sure how well it plays with Phoronix's testing suite, if at all.

Well, there have to be a built in benchmark run for correct measurements.
If you have to manually play and log the FPS big chances are that you won't
de exactly the same as the first round and then the results are screwed.

[h.s.s]

Well in those games catalyst may perform same as windows but in steam games I can see big differences between them. There should be some real games like cssource,csgo,dota2,trine1-2

[dffx]

It'd be very handy if Dota added an easy way to benchmark consistently.

you can measure FPS in dota2, no problem. There's a -dev launch flag that adds a dev console. I'm just not sure how well it plays with Phoronix's testing suite, if at all.

[mercutio]

Too bad you are still using these not very demanding games for benchmarking. I would like to see some more demanding games used for benchmarking. Steam and Source engine are available on GNU/Linux and phoronix is still using Openarena for benchmarking, lol.

It'd be very handy if Dota added an easy way to benchmark consistently.