Ubuntu 13.10 Performance On Intel Core i7 "Haswell"
It's mostly with the Haswell OpenGL Linux support where the upgraded packages over Ubuntu 13.04 mean a whole lot. For most of the computational tests, Haswell will run just fine on Ubuntu 13.04 and see not much change from the current Ubuntu 13.10 development state. If you're using the Intel Haswell graphics on Linux and were hoping that simply installing Ubuntu 13.10 would provide a dramatically faster experience, that's not the case until Linux 3.10 + Mesa 9.2 are included in the next couple of months. Until then, manual steps are required to get the best Haswell Linux OpenGL graphics performance.
If you're curious to see more benchmarks in this scenario, they can be found on OpenBenchmarking.org in 1306202-SO-UBUNTUHAS15.
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