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NVIDIA Performance On Linux, Solaris, & Vista

Posted by kdawson on from the in-that-order dept.

AtomBOB suggests a Phoronix review comparing the performance of a Quadro graphics card on Windows Vista Ultimate, Solaris Express Developer, and Ubuntu Linux. The graphics card used was a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 mid-range workstation part. The cross-platform benchmark used was SPECViewPerf 9.0 from SPEC. Quoting Phoronix: "Using the Quadro FX1700 512MB and the latest display drivers, Windows Vista wasn't the decisive winner, but the loser... Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 with the 169.12 driver had overall produced the fastest results within SPECViewPerf. In only three benchmarks had Solaris Express Developer 1/08 outpaced Ubuntu Linux, but with two of these tests the results were almost identical.""

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  1. What is the difference? by moreati · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've wondered this a while. What is the difference between the gaming cards and the workstation cards from Nvidia and ATI? Do they just have better DACs? Certified driver support for business apps? Or is the GPU itself somehow?

    Alex

  2. Re:the difference does not matter. by bigpicture · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You think? I remember and have followed a similar kind of scenario, it started over 30 years ago when I was younger. It went something like this: GM was the Biggest of the Big. Had a market share greater than all other automobile manufactures combined. Had revenues higher than the GNP of 90% of the worlds nations. etc. etc. etc. They developed this Business Model called "Planned Product Obsolescence". (Your vehicle was planned to be scrap in about 10 years or before.)

    There was also another little automobile manufacturer called Toyota with a very small market share, they made crappy little vehicles, used to be called "piss pots". They had a Business Model called "Continuous Improvement". There was a historic event in 2007 that went quietly unnoticed, Toyota surpassed GM in world market share and revenues.

  3. Re:the difference does not matter. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You argument is flawed. You're arguing because windows is better known it will always
    have the largest market share. The same could have been said about IBM pcs, or lotus 1-2-3,
    Borland's compiler suite, or wordstar word processor.

    The fact of the matter that next winner has to start out small because it gets to grab
    marketshare. Google is an excellent counterexample to your argument. They were just 2-3 people
    in 1998 working on a master's thesis project when Yahoo and AOL were the big thing. And where
    is AOL now? How much marketshare does Yahoo have for search engines?

    Personally I think that Dell selling preinstalled Linux boxes in the U.S. was the first toll
    of the death bell for Microsoft. Then walmart selling out the green PCs was the next tolling of
    the bell, and now that Asus is selling Eepc laptops I think is the first nail in the coffin for Microsoft.

    Will Microsoft die overnight? No. Will they go out with a bang? No. I think they will go out with
    a whimper within the next 5 years unless they somehow manage to reverse their course like they
    did in 1995 and embrace the fact that GPL software is here to stay and start using it.