Intel Iris Graphics 5100: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.04 Linux

Xonotic with higher image quality settings showed the Linux performance still coming up short of Microsoft Windows 8.1 for this ASUS Zenbook ultrabook with Intel Iris Graphics 5100.

When looking at the Intel Iris Graphics 5100 performance at a variety of resolutions from 800 x 600 to the Zenbook's native resolution of 2560 x 1440, the Windows 8.1 performance was leading over Ubuntu 14.04 every step of the way aside from 800 x 600... Using the Linux 3.14 kernel and Mesa 10.2-devel Git code hadn't showed up.

From the results in this article the Intel OpenGL Windows driver is running faster than their open-source Linux graphics driver but at least most of the performance is being delivered and we remain hopeful for more Haswell performance optimizations in the months ahead now that there's still a few months before Broadwell will still the limelight. These Windows vs. Linux results aren't too fundamentally different our past Intel GPU driver comparisons. For those curious about the cross-platform performance from other vendors, there is the recent AMD Kaveri Windows vs. Linux results and NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN OS numbers.

Stay tuned for more ASUS Zenbook UX301LA Linux benchmarks and its Ubuntu review in the days ahead.