X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce + AMD Radeon In Early 2023

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 30 January 2023 at 11:30 AM EST. Page 4 of 5. 103 Comments.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Graphics Preset: High, Anti Aliasing: Off. Wayland Session: RX 7900 XTX was the fastest.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is one of the native Linux games tested. Here the open-source Radeon graphics drivers continued delivering similar performance under the two GNOME sessions tested while the NVIDIA driver continued to deliver the best performance when running on the GNOME X.Org session.

Total War: Three Kingdoms benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Graphics Preset: Medium, Scenario: Battle Benchmark. Wayland Session: RX 7900 XTX was the fastest.

Total War: Three Kingdoms benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Graphics Preset: High, Scenario: Battle Benchmark. Wayland Session: RX 7900 XTX was the fastest.

Total War: Three Kingdoms, another native Linux game thanks to being ported by Feral, continued the trend of similar Radeon performance under X.Org and (X)Wayland gaming while the latest NVIDIA R525 driver was achieving the best performance with the X.Org session.

X-Plane benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality: High. Wayland Session: RX 7900 XTX was the fastest.

The X-Plane 12 flight simulator is supported natively on Linux by Laminar Research. This Vulkan-powered realistic flight simulator on the NVIDIA side continued seeing the best performance with GNOME 43's X.Org session.

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