NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Performance
The proprietary Indigo renderer saw similar performance under Ubuntu 23.04 and Windows 11 Pro.
The V-RAY commercial renderer also enjoyed similar performance under both Ubuntu 23.04 and Windows 11 Pro thanks to the shared driver sources at NVIDIA.
With the few Steam Play games tested, Ubuntu 23.04 with the RTX 4080/4090 were commonly around the ~90% mark as where we've typically seen Steam Play performance relative to Windows when not encountering any exceptions around notable driver differences. With the NVIDIA Linux and Windows proprietary drivers being built from the same code-base, the performance tends to be quite similar when not encountering any emulation/overhead differences or other factors. With the GPU compute benchmarks on Windows and Linux, those results overall tend to be very similar with exceptions around LuxCoreRender and Blender continuing to showcase greater performance potential on Linux for both GPU and CPU based rendering.
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