Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL Performance On Kabylake - Summer 2017

First up with Unigine Heaven, which is rather demanding even at 1280 x 1024 for Kabylake GT2 hardware, Windows 10 was maintaining a slight lead over the tested Linux distributions. Fedora 25 with its Wayland session was noticeably slower than using Fedora 25 with X.Org. It will be interesting to see how the Wayland performance is with Fedora 26 next month. Aside from Fedora, Clear Linux and Ubuntu were performing around the same for this GPU-bound test.

Unigine Tropics saw around the same performance between Windows and Linux.

With the more taxing Unigine Valley, Windows 10 Pro x64 was still a hair faster than Linux with its current Intel open-source driver stack.