Ubuntu 14.04 VS Windows 8 : Unreal Engine 4 Elemental on an Nvidia GTX 680
121A short video checking out the recently released UE4 Elemental demo running on both Ubuntu and Windows. Currently, Unreal Engine 4 is still in development for Linux. Thus, this is just a short sneak peak on where the peformance currently is.
On the Ubuntu side of things, I am using the Nvidia GTX 340.24 drivers which are the latest I can get my hands on.
On the Windows side of things, I am using the Nvidia 340.43 drivers which are also the latest at the time of this video.
To my surprise, the Linux build of the Elemental demo is not that far behind the Windows build in comparison to performance. I was expecting a lot more slow downs, even crashes considering UE4 is still in heavy development for Linux.
However, it is clear right now that Windows still takes the lead with performance in regards to Unreal Engine 4. Only time will tell if Unreal Engine 4 will provide similar performance on Linux, or if it will lag behind Unity and Unigine.
I look forward to seeing UE4 deliver performance at the same quality Unigine does for both platforms.
I apologize in advance if I've made any mistakes, I did the comparison to the best of my knowledge and hopefully have a consistent set of constants and variables in place to ensure this test is beneficial to you, the viewer.
For the On-Screen-Display on Ubuntu, I used GLXOSD which can be found here:
https://github.com/nickguletskii/GLXOSD
For the On-Screen-Display on Windows, I used MSI Afterburner which can be found here:
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm
Download UE4 Elemental demo [FREE]:
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Demos
Download Steam for Linux [FREE]:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
My desktop specs [used in this video]:
CPU - Intel i7-4770 3.4GHz
GPU - GTX 680 (Proprietary 340)
RAM - 8GB 1333MHz Corsair
OS - Ubuntu 14.04 64Bit/Windows 8 64bit (Dual Boot)
Video recorded using:
Canon SX50HS camera
Audacity
Video edited using the following software:
VideoStudio Ultimate X7
GIMP 2.8.10
Audacity
Download Ubuntu 14.04 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 undergoing an internship in a networking company, bringing IPv6 to IPv4 only buildings [Solunet SDN BHD].
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