Intel Skylake Graphics: Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 + Latest Open-Source Driver Code

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 24 June 2016 at 11:37 AM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 36 Comments.

Lastly are some synthetic OpenGL tests on each OS via GpuTest.

While the open-source Intel driver stack is getting faster in some of the tests with Linux 4.7 and Mesa 12.1-dev, the Linux numbers across the board for GpuTest were noticeably slower compared to Windows 10 Pro x64 with the latest Intel proprietary driver.

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