My laptop is an absolute beast. 4th gen Core i7, AMD FirePro M5100, 8 GB of RAM, an SSHD. It's pretty good.
My Surface is...good enough. 3rd gen Core i5, integrated graphics, 4 GB RAM, and a SSD.
Clone Hero runs fantastically on my Surface under W10. With MSAA off, it gets over 300 fps.
It also runs great on my laptop under Arch Linux at almost 400 fps.
Under W7? It can't even manage 200. It can barely manage 150. What. the. fuck?!
Windows 10 didn't run games much better. It also struggled.
I'm wondering how much of it is the SSHD. Like, both the Surface and the Linux install I referenced were SSDs, but both Windows installs are SSHD. But I don't know why that would affect the game *after it's loaded*. It's weird.
So a quick DDG search seems to suggest that I'm the only one with this problem? Searching "worse graphics performance on windows than linux" is mostly people complaining about worse performance on linux, the exact opposite of my situation. This is particularly weird.
@auravulpes and that was before some recent updates to mesa that are responsible for some hefty increases in performance in some things
@ky0ko Ah. Interesting! Thanks!
@auravulpes generally the only times i've seen worse performance on linux were with nvidia, with really badly done linux ports, or running under wine with brand new apis that aren't well supported by wine yet (e.g. when directx11 support was brand new and not even in wine proper yet)
@auravulpes you'll see a lot of stuff about amd drivers being awful on linux, but that's *very* old advice
currently i'd rate them as the best option for graphics under linux by miles, with a minor exception for the 5700 series but its approaching general usability
@auravulpes amd and intel gpus are generally fairly on-par under linux with what you can get on windows, unless a game is *very very* strongly optimized for specifically the windows driver stack
they also both use the open source graphics infrastructure under linux rather than being proprietary
i can personally confirm that i've had *tons* of games run better on linux than windows with amd gpus, with some exceptions involving stuttering