Gaming Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux

“At the beginning of this month we published workstation
benchmarks comparing Windows 7 to Ubuntu Linux. In those tests,
which were a continuation of tests from earlier this year when
looking to see whether Windows 7 is faster than Ubuntu 10.04 and
how fast is Windows compared to Mac OS X and Linux, the two
operating systems performed quite closely in our workstation tests
with only a few exceptions. Today, however, we are back to looking
at the Linux vs. Windows performance of the Lenovo ThinkPad W510
and this time we are looking at the OpenGL gaming performance
between Windows 7 Professional and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

“The Lenovo ThinkPad W510 being tested had an Intel Core i7
720QM clocked at 1.60GHz with a total of eight logical cores (four
physical cores + Hyper Threading), 4GB of DDR3 system memory, a
320GB Hitachi HTS72503 7200RPM SATA HDD, a 1600 x 900 display
panel, and a NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M graphics processor with 1GB of
video memory. The Intel Core i7 720QM continues to be one of the
fastest quad-core notebook processors available with a maximum
Turbo Frequency of 2.8GHz, 6MB of Intel Smart Cache, SSE4.2
support, and is built on a 45nm process. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M
graphics processor has 48 CUDA cores, a 550MHz core clock, 1GB of
128-bit 790MHz DDR3 video memory, OpenGL 3.2 support, and supports
OpenCL 1.0. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M is based upon the
consumer-grade GeForce GT 330M mobile GPU.”

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