"That's really a surprise: The Linux driver offer far better
minimal and average frames per second than the Windows driver. The
maximum rate is most times equal but sometimes the Linux driver is
also faster. Final thoughts
"Sometimes S3 Graphics really scares me and this is one of those
situations: It's already rather unusual that the performance of a
Linux driver is more or less equal to the Windows drivers, but that
the Linux drivers offers a far better performance is really
scaring. And keep in mind that S3 Graphics doesn't really care that
much about Linux at all!"