The latest release, Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" is compared at Phoronix with the Windows version still used by most gamers out there: XP SP2. To get both 3DMark01 Second Edition and 3DMark03 working under Linux, WINE 0.9.46 is used.

Test system: ASUS P5E3 Deluxe motherboard (Intel's X38 Chipset), 2GB of OCZ DDR3-1333 memory,  Mushkin 780W PSU, Intel Pentium D 820, ASUS GeForce 8600GT 512MB and GeForce 6600GT 128MB graphics cards. Drivers were ForceWare 163.71 for Windows and nVidia's 100.14.19 for Linux.

3DMark01 is a complete win for Microsoft here, but some 3DMark03 tests are more even. Multi-Texturing Fill Rate was very close for the 6600GT (there's some performance issue with the 8600GT keeping it down to 6600GT levels). Something similar happens with the Ragtroll test, where Linux wins with the 6600GT but doesn't improve when moving to the 8600GT. The CPU test is a clear win for Linux.

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