Mac OS X 10.6.3 vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 Benchmarks

[BlueKoala]

Sluggish performance in 3d with Mac OSX?
Fix: Increase the resolution

[Kejk_PL]

Hi,
Can you guys run some test with and without compiz enabled? From my and others experiences this can lead to great performance differences in OpenGL games. Especially in wine - as I heard that you want to test wine performance too

[curaga]

A benchmark I would love to see: Photoshop CS5 on OS X and Windows 7... you know... real stuff that matters

Doesn't run on Linux, thus doesn't matter, thus moot point :P

[kraftman]

Personally, I think that those tests are meaningless.
Who's the moron that runs Apache on Windows 7?
Who cares about performances of those apps on a client OS?
If the tests were run on Windows Server it would make sense, but on Windows 7 is just totally useless.

On the Server results could be worse If the server must guarantee data will be immediately written to the disc and on the desktop there won't be so strict mode used, desktop OS will get better results thanks to caching. The same if you do some benchmarks in virtual machine - it can give far better results then a physical host, but those results will be meaningless. When comes to server benchmarks I wouldn't test the default OS's settings. Some applications like Firefox uses SQLite and Amarok uses MySQL for default. I'd like to see some encoding, decoding, unpacking, compressing, computation benchmarks. Speed of creating, deleting, copying files, directories. This is what's important on desktops IMHO.

[BlackStar]

Hm, I can't do anything about it if you try really hard to understand my opinions in a light you personally find fitting.

I'm saying those benchmarks are a waste of time and money (-my- money, if I decide to donate). You don't need to be a genius to know games work smoothlier on Windows than on Linux, you can install two games on both. I can assure you that in any conceivable setup, with every conceivable driver, Windows will beat the crap out of Linux. Not just Ubuntu, but even your tuned-to-insanity -Ox Gentoo.

You are quite mistaken. I have been working on a cross-platform 3d VR application that is currently running roughly 5% faster on Ubuntu compared to Windows XP. With fglrx of all things!

If you don't the articles, don't read them and/or stop donating to Phoronix. Complaining in the discussion thread for the article results does nothing but annoy those of us who *are* interested in those results.

[Enrox]

A benchmark I would love to see: Photoshop CS5 on OS X and Windows 7... you know... real stuff that matters

[Enrox]

Personally, I think the most interesting will be some parallel benchmarks and benchmarks like Apache, PostgreSQL, Sqlite not interesting at all (at least using Ext4 file system).

Personally, I think that those tests are meaningless.
Who's the moron that runs Apache on Windows 7?
Who cares about performances of those apps on a client OS?
If the tests were run on Windows Server it would make sense, but on Windows 7 is just totally useless.

[Enrox]

Maybe the people who have paid few hundred bucks to buy them?

Vista-bashing in 2010 is quite pathetic.
Games on Vista get about the same FPS as XP or Windows 7, sometimes more sometimes less but overall it's the same.

[Craig73]

It would be interesting (perhaps) if we could re-compile one of the Gallium3D drivers using the Windows winsys (I imagine there must be one out there, even if not open source) to see what the performance is. [ie, how much of the performance differences with some games are within the driver itself versus the other supporting Windows library and/or Kernel]

[nadro]

It looks like NV drivers are better optimized for Windows... So fglrx are "friendly" for 3D in Linux than NV drivers (on my HD4850 I get the same FPS both in Windows Vista x64 Home Premium and Ubuntu 10.04 x64)