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  • #21
    Originally posted by fuzz View Post
    Lol, Arch? Sabayon? How about pure, 100% Gentoo?

    The benchmarks would mean something for comparisons the system it runs on. Doubt Michael wants to spend that much time on perfection, though.

    I do not think is a lot of time to install Sabayon a run the Phoronix suite - about half to 1 hour, if you use unetbootin or Multisystem - and Gentoo is, to have a 1000 Hz kernel running game tests.

    Of course there are no PPA with a Ubuntu 1000 Hz kernel to test it fast.

    It would be a great idea, I suggested it to Lorenzo Carbonell, el atareao, that does some pretty staff for ubuntu as contact lens, freecache, or google reader indicator. I hope he or any other one else would make a 1000 Hz kernel for ubuntu at his PPA.

    But making a 1000 Hz Ubuntu kernel and add it to the benchmark is also a less than 30 minutes - 1 hour procedure, and you will have it done for future benchmarking - or at least a script to do it faster and easily-.

    And of course, if you let Gentoo compiing, while you do other things, or all night it would be a great test.

    The gentoo compiling time is a great indicator of how fast is a computer.

    But Sabayon is a great aproach for desktop users, unfortunately there are no a PPA system for it, perhaps PPA developers should add arch, sabayon, debian and rpm packages letting the users to choose the distro.

    And distros agreee to use a similar names for packages with different "surnames" or extensions, But that is other issue.

    I want fair benchmarks and linux kernel for gaming compiled at 1000 Hz is far better, Ubuntu choose to compile the kernel at 100 Hz, gaming benchmark is unfair for Linux vs MS WOS if there are no other kernels compiled at 1000 Hz at the charts.
    Last edited by mitcoes; 03 May 2012, 04:34 AM.

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    • #22
      Unity is 50% slower than any other DE - could you repeat using Mate/Cinnamon/KDE ???

      Hi

      I really quite liked testing Ubuntu 12.04 however I simply can't run it as my main desktop as ALL 3d full screen games are roughly 50% slower than in KDE4(with/without desktop effects) , Mate , Cinnamon,.

      All the tests have proved is that Unity is crap (the absolute worst DE) for running games - if your a gamer avoid like the plague (or just have really slow games)

      It is due to the fact you can't enable '"unredirect fullscreen windows" in compiz - if you do the FPS will be vastly improved (so unity is actually capable of running well) but on reboot unity will be broken... You can't enter the desktop

      You either have to go in via unity 2D and disable it or manually edit ~/.gconf/apps/compiz-1/plugins/composite/screen0/options/%gconf.xml

      At present I get about 40-50% extra fps in Fedora 16 (KDE), and Arch (Kde + Gnome3) than I do in Ubuntu 12.04 (unity) - unless I enable ' "unredirect fullscreen windows' - then if I forgot to disable it before logging out unity won't load.....

      Ubuntu 12.04 with mate (gnome classic) is also fine - it is 100% a unity/compiz issue.

      At present on an out the box 12.04 install a windows user will take one look at a 3d game in ubuntu and think - Well Linux is 1/2 the speed of windows.... (which is not true)

      Also - unless I enable that option some graphics have anomalies

      There is a bug report here

      [Test Case] 1. Open CCSM 2. Navigate to ccsm -> Composite 3. Enable unredirect fullscreen windows 4. Reboot -> Verify that after the reboot Unity works correctly [Regression Potential] Visual regressions at most. Original description: Setting "unredirect fullscreen windows" in ccsm prevents compiz to start on the next startup, the only visible part of the screen will be the wallpaper. The only way to recover is logging into Unity-2d and resetting the default compiz settings, where that ...


      Your article suggests 'Linux' is slower - its not its is unity that is at fault,

      Please re-test in a different DE and see if the results have changed

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      • #23
        Shocking the superior OS won.

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        • #24
          Originally posted by soupbowl View Post
          Shocking the superior OS won.
          You mean Arch Linux ?

          Thats my point - thanks to unity people are going to get the wrong impression on Linux as a whole.

          KDE4/gnome2/cinnamon would get faster results - on my machine (nvidia) win7 is slower than Arch/Fedora/Ubuntu (as long as you don;t use unity) in any benchmarks I do.

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          • #25
            Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
            Ubuntu is no longer the most used distro - Mint is, and Mint doesn't use Unity.
            Oh not this kind of crap again, go on a random forum or linux gaming site and ask what people are using, it's almost always Ubuntu. If you are going by sites like distrowatch our numbers are heavily skewed as its a distro hopping geek site, most users don't distro hop, ever.

            And I'm saying this as a Mint user. When I did run Ubuntu and I'd play games like Regnum Online back when the ONLY server was Ra, almost everyone on Linux ran Ubuntu, there was like 20 guys on the server that ran fedora and like 3 nuts on Gentoo, no other distro was used by anyone that was playing that in the year and a half I was playing Regnum.

            Linux users where pretty well represented on Regnum at the time as it was pretty much the only native client MMO on Linux at the time.

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            • #26
              Originally posted by StephanG View Post
              And because of that, Windows has rightfully earned a reputation as "bloated". But, despite that, games always seemed to be able to draw out far, far better results than on Linux. Back in the olden days, when I was still running XP, I got the impression that when a game runs, it sort of "shuts down" everything else. But, that has never been the case on Linux.
              All versions of Windows have an option somewhere in control panel that tells the OS whether to give higher priority to the foreground application or to the background tasks, and it defaults to foreground. Recently Linux has gained something similar, but it mostly works for text based applications ran from the console, when X11 is active I believe the X server will be getting the higher priority, not your game, as the kernel has no way to know which X application currently has the focus.

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              • #27
                The most interesting point in win tests on ivb is that the opengl version is NOT 4.x but 3.x. But ivb is DX11 compatible, that means that the intel win developers are not really good at opengl... at least they can beat the linux team

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                • #28
                  Unity 15-20fps ... Metacity 95-105fps

                  Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
                  Wasn't Unity one of the worst performers of all DEs, including KDE?
                  I play quakelive a lot. On fullscreen (when I'm not even able to interact with the DE) in 12.04 Unity I get an unplayable 15-20 frames per second. A simple "metacity --replace &" and I'm running at 95-105fps or higher at times.

                  I like the look of unity but it kills fps on games for me. I don't know why it needs to be consuming so much when I'm in a fullscreen app, while Metacity doesn't. Hell even if they automatically switched to Metacity for fullscreen games and then back to Unity when exiting fullscreen, but it seems strange that such a thing would be necessary.
                  Last edited by gerrywastaken; 04 May 2012, 06:06 PM.

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                  • #29
                    Isn't Unity just compiz?

                    We'll see when Michael posts the nvidia benchmarks. If there's a dramatic difference from Windows, then it's probably a DE thing.

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                    • #30
                      test ubuntu with its lowlatency kernel too - it is at repos -

                      Introducción al kernel-rt. : GNU/Linux | Hispasonic : sudo apt-get install linux-headers-lowlatency sudo apt-get install linux-lowlaten...


                      As easy as this, and test the both kernels, not only the 100 Hz one.

                      sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.2.0-23-lowlatency
                      sudo apt-get install linux-lowlatency
                      sudo update-grub

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