Intel Coffee Lake OpenGL Performance On Windows 10 vs. Linux
With some synthetic OpenGL tests via GpuTest, in some cases the Linux performance remains roughly in line with the current Windows 10 driver.
While in other tests there is still a bit more headway to be made with the Intel Mesa / DRM driver.
Overall these are some of the most competitive Windows vs. Linux OpenGL benchmark results we have seen to date when strictly comparing the current-generation Intel graphics performance between the two operating systems and their respective GL drivers. Last year is when AMD's open-source RadeonSI driver stack caught up -- and in some cases outperformed -- their Windows proprietary driver for these OpenGL games of similar quality under both Windows and Linux, but sadly the same still can't be said for a majority of the Linux game ports available with there still being significant overhead impairing their abilities to compete. Coming up in the next few days will be some fresh Radeon Linux vs. Windows gaming benchmarks with several of those popular Steam titles. Also coming up shortly are the latest Windows 10 WSL vs. Docker vs. VirtualBox vs. bare metal benchmark results.
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