Workstation Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 3, 2010 4:21 PM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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As I alluded to recently, the second round of Windows 7 vs. Linux benchmarks -- with the first round consisting of Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OS X vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu benchmarks -- are currently being done atop a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 notebook that is quite popular with business professionals. With the high-end ThinkPad W510 boasting a dual quad-core Intel Core i7 CPU with Hyper-Threading plus a NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M graphics processor, we began this second round of cross-platform benchmarks by running a set of workstation tests. In this article we are mainly looking at the workstation graphics (via SPECViewPerf) performance along with some CPU/disk tests.

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"Benchmarks" - in the noise? phsolide 1 1,314 Aug 4, 2010 5:07 AM

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