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Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Benchmark

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MetalheadGautham
MetalheadGautham Original post #1
Mar 12, 2008 at 4:41 AM
Well, you may not believe that these days, Windows Vista Ultimate is loosing to Ubuntu Linux in what was once said to be the thing the Redmond Operating System is best at - Graphics.

Here is a benchmark test for nVidia's Quadro FX1700 512MB on Canonical Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5, Sun Solaris Express Developer 1/08, and Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate. And from what the graphs show, Ubuntu and Solaris beat Windows by a huge margin, and ubuntu in turn beats solaris several times by good margins.

Read On...

Source: phoronix
Ecko
Ecko #2
Mar 12, 2008 at 8:41 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

WOW
& Vista Su*ks once more !!!
Faun
Faun #3
Mar 12, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

^^nope, Ubuntu excels more
praka123
Mar 12, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

WoW is now with Ubuntu! :D
CadCrazy
Mar 12, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

I'am very happy to see that Ubuntu on top. Basically a mechanical engineer working as design engineer (3D CAD). Main 3d CAD software used in the industry are Catia V5, Unigraphics NX( UG NX), Pro-E, Solidworks (SW). In every software test ubuntu outperformed other.
I wish Ubuntu to become mainstream OS in 3d CAD workstations both from HP & DELL .
praka123
Mar 12, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

^autodesk's software are not yet available natively for Linux/BSD :( including autocad,3dmax et al :(
CadCrazy
Mar 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

I don't use them(Max or autocad). As said earlier I Use Catia, Pro-E, Solidworks & Unigraphics(to some extent)
DigitalDude
Mar 12, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

[offtopic] cadcrazy where r you working ? :D
iMav
iMav #9
Mar 12, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

but wats the point unless we have game developers making efficient use of this or professional applications being ported to linux this is of very less use to the end user
T
The Conqueror #10
Mar 12, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

Great........Open Source and Linux is the future ! :evil:
MetalheadGautham
Mar 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

but the problem is that the review is related only to nVidia. the AMD solution is yet to be tested.
So we can't start clapping now till those guys post the scheduleded ati review in a few weeks.

And I still can't believe that it was an ALPHA STATE OPERATING SYSTEM that beat Microsoft's biggest fish.

Just imagine what a fully customised and self compiled version of the final releae can do !
F
FilledVoid #12
Mar 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

Im really anxious to see how hardy does once I get it myself. I see that the manufacturer of my Tv Tuner ard has released Vista drivers for the thingie :) . So now Im going to try that out and see how it does myself :)

By the way if anyone is interested in just the summary of the test on Phoronix here it is.

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 with the 169.12 driver had overall produced the fastest results within SPECViewPerf. In only three benchmarks had Solaris Express Developer 1/08 outpaced Ubuntu Linux, but with two of these tests the results were almost identical. These three tests were Maya (maya-02), UGS NX (ugnx-01), and UGS Teamcenter Visualization Mockup (tcvis-01). In the rest of the OpenGL tests, Solaris Express and Windows Vista were fighting for second place. In six out of the nine tests, Windows Vista was in last place. For those interested in NVIDIA's Quadro series for CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture; NVIDIA's GPGPU implementation), this technology is supported in NVIDIA's binary Linux driver.

Source the same Link as MetalHeadGautham pointed to.
T
ThinkFree #13
Mar 12, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

A very good news
PCWORM
PCWORM #14
Mar 12, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

Hmm,,nice info.....btw is Ubuntu 8.04 avail now?
im on suse rite now
Cyrus_the_virus
Mar 12, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

but wats the point unless we have game developers making efficient use of this or professional applications being ported to linux this is of very less use to the end user

Games, who's talking about games here? Do you know what workstation are for?
naveen_reloaded
Mar 12, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

nice info...wake up ms before its too late...
gary4gar
gary4gar #17
Mar 13, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

Hmm,,nice info.....btw is Ubuntu 8.04 avail now?
im on suse rite now
24 April
x3060
x3060 #18
Mar 14, 2008 at 3:13 AM
Re: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha Outperforms Windows Vista Ultimate in NVIDIA Workstation Bench

now thats an amazing achievement :)