NVIDIA Performance On Linux, Solaris, & Vista

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 9, 2008 @12:23PM 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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But Microsoft is not GM by westlake · 2008-03-09 16:00 · 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.