Big Graphics Card Comparison Of Metro Redux Games On Linux

Metro 2033 Redux continued to run much faster with the NVIDIA graphics cards than the Radeon hardware powered by Catalyst. These results aren't very different from the original Metro Redux Linux benchmarks nor proportionally are they different from the BioShock Infinite tests and other recent AMD vs. NVIDIA Linux benchmarks of high-profile Steam games. The Radeon R9 290 at 2560 x 1600 for Metro 2033 Redux averaged out to just 54 frames per second, the same speed as the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. Meanwhile the GeForce GTX 980 averaged out to 91 frames per second with the same quality settings and using the latest drivers on each platform.

Metro Last Light Redux didn't yield any significantly different results aside from the frame-rates being higher. Here the Radeon R9 290 averaged out to 67 FS, which was close to the speed of a GeForce GTX 760, but still well below where it should be performing. The GeForce GTX 980 averaged out to 110 frames per second for this same test.

The AMD Catalyst Linux performance continues to struggle for numerous Steam on Linux, even when using the newest Catalyst 15.3 Beta. The Metro Redux games have been out for Linux since last December yet there hasn't been much activity within the AMD Catalyst Linux camp for improving the situation, but hopefully once they're onto their new Linux driver architecture the situation will pan out better. On the NVIDIA side, the games continue to run fine and perform at top speeds that are generally on-par with Windows (or in some cases even faster).

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