Intel Performance With Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows 8.1 Is A Mixed Bag

With low and high quality settings, the demanding Xonotic cross-platform first person shooter had comparable frame-rates with no real surprises.

With ultra and ultimate image quality settings for Xonotic, the Intel Windows graphics driver had pulled ahead of the open-source Linux driver. Fortunately, with Mesa 10.0 there are performance improvements but still not enough to bring it up to outperform the Windows Haswell implementation.