Posted on Tuesday, July 30 2013 @ 9:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Phoronix tested the performance of NVIDIA's Ubuntu graphics driver and discovered that its performance is very close to that of Windows 8, you can read it
over here.
"In recent days on Phoronix I have published benchmarks showing Windows 8 beating Ubuntu Linux for Intel Haswell performance and the Radeon Gallium3D driver losing to AMD Catalyst Legacy on Windows. As some good news for NVIDIA Linux users, the performance on Ubuntu Linux can beat out Microsoft Windows 8 on modern GPUs. However, the strong Linux performance can only be found if using the closed-source NVIDIA driver and not the open-source Nouveau alternative."
