Ubuntu 13.04 VS Windows 8: Unigine Heaven Benchmark
73Video showcasing the frames per-second difference of running Unigine Heaven on Ubuntu versus running it in Windows 8. Both tests have Heaven running maxed out using OpenGL.
On the Ubuntu side of things, I used the newest Linux driver which is 319.49.
On the Windows side of things, I used the most similar Windows driver which is 314.22.
Unigine Heaven was set to exactly the same settings in both situations.
No screen recorders were involved. All recording was done with the Nikon AW100 camera ( thus the low quality video, best I can do at this point in time ).
To my surprise, Ubuntu is able to handle the same heavy graphics and tessellation that Windows usually handles. Both experience very similar frames per-second. Windows wins the average fps, but only by 0.5, so it's not really a serious performance difference.
Summary: Ubuntu 13.04 with Unity runs on par with Windows 8. Unigine's engine looks to be very well equipped for passing the graphics load equally amongst both operating systems.
This video is just to highlight the performance I get in both Operating Systems. They are NOT representative of what anyone else may experience, whether current, past or future. AMD graphics users and Intel graphics users may experience vastly different results.
I am not infallible. It is likely that I made mistakes. I did however put a lot of time into this to try and get it right. I hope you can take something informational out of this.
Download Unigine Heaven from here [FREE]:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/
Download Steam for Linux here (FREE):
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
This video was recorded using:
Nikon AW100 Camera
Audacity + Blue Yeti Microphone (voice over)
This video was edited using:
VideoStudio X6 Ultimate
GIMP 2.8.4
Audacity
My computer rig specs:
CPU - Intel i7-4770 3.4GHz LGA1150 Haswell
GPU - Asus Nvidia GTX 680 2GB (Nvidia 319 and Nvidia 314)
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Corsair 1333MHz
OS - Ubuntu 13.04 32Bit/Windows 8 64Bit (Dual Boot)
Download Ubuntu 13.04 for free:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Download GIMP 2.8.4 for free:
http://www.gimp.org/
My alias in ubuntuforums.org:
myromance123
About me:
I'm just a Malaysian student studying in Multimedia University Cyberjaya. I am currently in my 4th year at the time of this video. I am taking the Software Engineering and Games Development course (which has now been relabelled as Games Development under FCI).
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