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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. the difference does not matter. by gnutoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gaming cards traditionally follow workstation cards in time.

    What's significant here is that Windows has lost it's graphics crown. DRM and bloat or industry defection for the same reasons, we all know the root cause. Free software is simply cleaner and works better. If the ability to run DirectX 9 under Wine was not enough to move gamers to Linux, this is. Things can only go downhill for Microsoft now. Free drivers will be even cleaner and the performance gap will widen.

  2. But Microsoft is not GM by westlake · · Score: 1, Troll
    It went something like this: GM was the Biggest of the Big. Had a market share greater than all other automobile manufactures combined.

    60% of Microsoft's revenues now come from outside the U.S.

    Microsoft has been reporting 15% growth in revenues the U.S., 20 to 30% growth abroad each quarter. This isn't the picture of a company on the way down, it is the picture of a company on the way up.

    Microsoft's strength in Europe is astonishing given the entrenched resistance, the take-no-prisoners mood of the EU bureaucracy.