This week's release of BioShock Infinite for Linux reinforces the common recommendation by Linux game developers that those seeking the best support and performance should use the proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver. Here's an initial look at the BioShock Infinite performance on Ubuntu between AMD and NVIDIA graphics.

With the BioShock Infinite Linux benchmark for this game powered by Unreal Engine 3 that's been out for years on Windows but finally ported to Linux via the controversial eON wrapper technology, I posted some benchmarks yesterday with AMD Catalyst Gaming Performance For BioShock Infinite On Linux. Those AMD results found that the BioShock Infinite Linux port was rather CPU bottle-necked with Catalyst for most of the newer AMD Radeon GCN-era graphics cards.