NVIDIA Quadro Driver runs fastest on… Linux? What, not Windows??

Monday, March 10th, 2008

NVIDIA Quadro Driver runs fastest on… Linux? What, not Windows??

It’s true, the NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux appears to best Windows and Solaris – and by a wide margin. I think the “Linux support” issue can be somewhat put to bed finally – except for ease of updating with kernel revs… now that is usually a pain still. I am somewhat amazed at how strongly Windows secured a last place finish… I wonder how much is due to the driver and how much to the OS…

By the way, if you’re wondering how a company got away with comparing performance with Solaris (which is not allowed per the Solaris license), you should note that they used the Solaris Express Developer Edition which I can only assume does not have the clause preventing non-Sun licensed parties from publishing Solaris performance results (I have not read that license myself, but am guessing Phoronix did – or they secured permission from Sun…).

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_workstation_perf&num=1

Posted by md on March 10th, 2008 | Filed in Desktop, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source Software, Solaris, Sun, Technology, Ubuntu, Windows | Comment now »