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Windows 11 vs. Linux Benchmarks For Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Shows Strengths & Weaknesses
Last week with the availability of the Intel Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards I ran benchmarks looking at the GPU compute performance, Linux gaming benchmarks, and also the workstation graphics capabilities.
Windows benchmarks of the Intel Arc B580 also showed it performing more competitively to the likes of the GeForce RTX 4060 compared to what I was seeing under Linux. The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K on the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z890 HERO motherboard was used for all of the testing with 32GB of RAM and carrying out clean installs of both Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu 24.10 to a WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSD 1TB. The focus of this article isn't trying to go after some AAA gaming comparison but rather looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the Intel Linux graphics driver for the new Battlemage hardware relative to Windows at large.
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