Phoronix compared the performance of SteamOS and Windows 8.1

For those NVIDIA gaming customers running Microsoft Windows 8.1 that have been thinking about giving Valve's SteamOS Linux-based gaming platform a try, here are some early benchmarks of the SteamOS 1.0 beta that compare the performance to Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 on multiple NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

Since Friday night I have been extremely busy trying out the public version of the SteamOS Beta, being incredibly excited since first hearing about it from Gabe in early 2012. Phoronix readers have learned about the SteamOS graphics compositor, low-level details of Valve's OS, and who's developing this operating system plus other extra information about the innards of SteamOS.

This past weekend I also showed it's possible to run the SteamOS kernel on Ubuntu, the Steam Controller works on Linux, AMD Radeon GPUs with Catalyst will work on SteamOS, and with some changes Intel's open-source graphics can work with SteamOS.

  SteamOS vs. Windows 8.1 NVIDIA Performance