The First NVIDIA GeForce Benchmarks On The SteamOS Beta @ Phoronix

The hot new OS of the winter (and new year) will be SteamOS.  As you can imagine this is a Linux based distro designed for playing Steam games.  The footprint promises to be light making it a perfect OS for MiniITX systems that don't require much power or heat.

A comprehensive performance comparison is underway at Phoronix that pits SteamOS against other desktop Linux distributions, but for those anxious to see some performance numbers, here are benchmarks done so far this weekend from seven NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on the public SteamOS 1.0 Beta operating system. In this article are early benchmarks from seven NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards running Valve's Debian Linux based SteamOS on an Intel Haswell system.

Of course the question of performance always comes to mind and if it is worth building a SteamOS box or picking an off the shelf Linux distro and "rolling your own".

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