Linux Benchmarks

Ubuntu's latest 64-bit release —8.04— powered our test machine for the Linux portion of this review. It offered an ease of setup, particularly with the Radeon drivers.

glxgears

glxgears is a simple benchmark included on most distros by default. Although not always a fantastic judge of performance, glxgears can give you a ballpark estimate on how well your video card will perform.

Unreal Tournament 2004

The Unreal Tournament 2004 benchmark was completed much the same way as in Windows: 64-bit and full graphics on a time botmatch. The only difference is that Linux uses OpenGL to render the game instead of Direct3D.