8-Way Linux Desktop OpenGL Comparison Atop Fedora 22

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 3 August 2015 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 1 of 4. 24 Comments.

Beyond last week's Debian GNU/Hurd vs. GNU/Linux comparison, another set of updated benchmarks sought by some Phoronix Premium members have been a fresh cross-desktop environment comparison when running various games / OpenGL benchmarks across desktops / window managers.

I haven't run any cross-desktop OpenGL performance comparisons recently, but with the request coming in from the premium bunch, I did some modern tests on Fedora 22 x86_64. With an Intel Core i7 5775C system sporting Iris Graphics Pro 6200, I tested the following desktops from their F22 packages with their out-of-the-box settings:

Cinnamon!

Of course, GNOME 3.16 as the default desktop environment of Fedora 22. I also did a separate run with GNOME on Wayland, giving the good shape it's gotten into for Fedora 22.

No comparison would be complete without testing the latest KDE Plasma 5 + KDE Frameworks 5 packages on Fedora 22.


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