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Yes, Task View and Mission Control are similar. I don't think that this speed comparison is very useful, but in my experience the graphics drivers under Windows

Yes, Task View and Mission Control are similar. I don't think that this speed comparison is very useful, but in my experience the graphics drivers under Windows are significantly better than on OSX or on Linux. (I run Ubuntu, OSX and Windows 10 on my retina MBP, and desktop graphics performance on Win10 is way better than the rest. By 'desktop graphics performance' I mean window management, scrolling of 2D content in browsers and other apps.) However, Win 10 runs quite inefficiently on Apple hardware in terms of battery life. On a side note, I find Win10 as the first Windows that is usable on HiDPI machines.

seanmcdirmid 11y ago
I'm using Windows 8 on both a rMBP (~220 PPI) and a 4K 28" monitor in the office (~150 PPI). It has worked fine for awhile, the only problem are some legacy apps (e.g. font forge, the font installer, and oddly enough, BootCamp!).
- sz4kerto 11y ago
  Yes, but Win10 will also bring display-dependent scaling, i.e. you will able to manually set a different scaling level per display.
  - seanmcdirmid 11y ago
    Ya, that would be cool. I couldn't get a second display to work with my 4K...well, it sort of worked but was horribly distorted.
userbinator 11y ago
the graphics drivers under Windows are significantly better than on OSX or on Linux An influence from its gaming heritage? I know that GPU companies definitely spend a lot more effort on improving their Windows drivers than on other OSs, because of gamers.
- izacus 11y ago
  That and the fact that Apple just doesn't seem to care much about 3D support... the 3D stack is about 3 years out of date now, GPU drivers as well (and nVidia etc. can't update them). Yosemite had NO updates to the GPU drivers or OpenGL support at all and currently it's still about 20-30% slower on the same hardware compared to Windows. If I'm a bit cynical, Apple is deliberately refusing updates just so they'll be able to tout huge 20% performance improvement of their proprietary Metal when they bring it to OS X.

seanmcdirmid 11y ago

I'm using Windows 8 on both a rMBP (~220 PPI) and a 4K 28" monitor in the office (~150 PPI). It has worked fine for awhile, the only problem are some legacy apps (e.g. font forge, the font installer, and oddly enough, BootCamp!).

sz4kerto 11y ago
Yes, but Win10 will also bring display-dependent scaling, i.e. you will able to manually set a different scaling level per display.
- seanmcdirmid 11y ago
  Ya, that would be cool. I couldn't get a second display to work with my 4K...well, it sort of worked but was horribly distorted.

userbinator 11y ago

the graphics drivers under Windows are significantly better than on OSX or on Linux An influence from its gaming heritage? I know that GPU companies definitely spend a lot more effort on improving their Windows drivers than on other OSs, because of gamers.

izacus 11y ago
That and the fact that Apple just doesn't seem to care much about 3D support... the 3D stack is about 3 years out of date now, GPU drivers as well (and nVidia etc. can't update them). Yosemite had NO updates to the GPU drivers or OpenGL support at all and currently it's still about 20-30% slower on the same hardware compared to Windows. If I'm a bit cynical, Apple is deliberately refusing updates just so they'll be able to tout huge 20% performance improvement of their proprietary Metal when they bring it to OS X.