In my laptop's BIOS menu there is an option named Intel (R) Virtualization Technology which can be enabled/disabled by the user.

Does this feature has any performance effects on dual booting Windows and Linux? What about gaming performance?

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The purpose of Intel VT is to improve the performance of virtual machines. Intel VT CPU virtualization features enable faithful abstraction of the full prowess of an Intel CPU to a virtual machine (VM). All software in the VM can run without any performance or compatibility hit, as if it was running natively on a dedicated CPU ^Intel , however for gaming you generally need DirectX from Wine or Proton which defeats the purpose of running Windows in a VM just to play games. ^Quora unless your are running VMware Workstation which supports DirectX 11 and earlier. DirectX support in VirtualBox is currently 8/9 which is OK for older games.

Enabling Intel VT in the BIOS doesn't have any performance effects on dual booting Windows and Linux except in virtual machines.

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