Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 Graphics Performance With NVIDIA's GTX 1070 & GTX 1080

GRID Autosport was released for Linux at the end of last year. Unfortunately, the Linux performance is still far behind the Windows 10 results for both NVIDIA cards using the very latest drivers.

For Talos Principle I decided to compare the Direct3D 11 vs. OpenGL vs. Vulkan performance where applicable. TTP's D3D11 back-end was the fastest on both graphics cards followed by Windows 10 with Vulkan. The Vulkan Linux performance for this game was behind the Vulkan Windows driver on the GTX 1080 while under the GTX 1070 the performance was about the game. The OpenGL performance was close to the same under both operating systems.

Dota 2 with the Source 2 OpenGL renderer saw close to the same performance between the competing operating systems, but Ubuntu was leading by a few frames per second.

With the new Dota 2 Vulkan renderer, the Windows performance was superior to the Linux by a measurable amount.