Windows 7 vs. Linux Mint 12: Rendering Benchmark (Lightsmark v2.0)
Professional Benchmark Link: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page...
"When running the Lightsmark OpenGL lighting benchmark, which is more advanced than the ioquake3/Qfusion-based games, the Linux performance is horrific in comparison to Windows. The Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1 performance is far better than Linux and the open-source Mesa driver stack. If averaging the frame-rates from 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1920 x 1080, the Windows average is 55 FPS while the Linux frame-rate is just 15 FPS. The Windows performance is 3.66x faster than Ubuntu. Windows 7 started out at 82 FPS at 800 x 600 while Ubuntu 7 was just at 21 FPS. This performance difference is devastating."
LIGHTSMARK is a multiplatform OPENGL benchmark/demo in which real time global lightning and advanced shadows are rendered. This benchmark is designed to simulate typical workloads in real time rendering.
http://lightsmark.com/
System:
Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.1 GHz
Intel GM 965 Graphics (X3100)
3 GB of DDR2 RAM