The WINE project is going on 15 years in existence, and two years ago, it finally went into beta. Through the beta stage, there has been a consistent release about every two weeks, which often brings a fair number of improvements to this software for running Windows programs on Linux (and other operating systems). Sparked by curiosity as to how the performance of WINE is affected release by release, we have gone through and benchmarked the past seven releases. While this only represents the past four months of work by the WINE community, the results may surprise you.

For this article we had went back and built from source the past seven WINE releases to date -- WINE 0.9.44, 0.9.45, 0.9.46, 0.9.47, 0.9.48 0.9.49, and 0.9.50.

The benchmarks in this article simply focus on the graphics performance within 3DMark 2001 SE and 3DMark 2003.

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