Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 Graphics Performance With NVIDIA's GTX 1070 & GTX 1080
Notice any trends yet in the results? Before anyone is suggesting the system was flawed under Linux or there was some fundamental issue with the Ubuntu 16.04 install, here are some results for the long-running Xonotic first person shooter game....
The Xonotic results show that the system has the potential of performing close to the same under each operating system with the same hardware... Linux even pulls ahead in a number of the Xonotic results.
The GpuTest synthetic OpenGL results also indicate similar performance under both Windows and Linux.