NVIDIA On Ubuntu 14.04 Has Some New Advantages Over Windows 8.1

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 21 May 2014 at 06:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 16 Comments.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vs. Windows 8.1 Updated - NVIDIA GeForce

With Unigine Sanctuary the frame-rates were closer between Ubuntu and Windows, but still the Linux distribution was delivering the top numbers with the newer GPUs.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vs. Windows 8.1 Updated - NVIDIA GeForce

When running Unigine Tropics, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti was still running about 20% faster on Ubuntu 14.04 than Windows 8.1 Pro x64 on the same hardware.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vs. Windows 8.1 Updated - NVIDIA GeForce
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vs. Windows 8.1 Updated - NVIDIA GeForce
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vs. Windows 8.1 Updated - NVIDIA GeForce

Xonotic was the first game we encountered in this fresh round of NVIDIA driver testing where Windows 8.1 was running significantly faster than Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.


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