SteamOS: Desktop vs. Big Picture Mode Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SteamOS: Desktop vs. Big Picture Mode Benchmarks

Curious if running Linux games via Steam's Big Picture Mode causes a performance impact over a conventional desktop session? Here's some benchmarks...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxMTA

[maslascher]

Phoronix: SteamOS: Desktop vs. Big Picture Mode Benchmarks

Curious if running Linux games via Steam's Big Picture Mode causes a performance impact over a conventional desktop session? Here's some benchmarks...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxMTA

So generally big picture mode sucks, sucks even better then Gnome Shell when it comes to performance.

[Temar]

So generally big picture mode sucks, sucks even better then Gnome Shell when it comes to performance.

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1410071-PL-STEAMOSSE57

Doesn't look like it has much of a performance impact.

However last time I tried, BPM itself was a resource hog. It constantly saturated one of my cpu cores.

[GraysonPeddie]

What could be the cause of the performance drop in desktop mode for ET: Quake Wars Demo?

[dungeon]

What could be the cause of the performance drop in desktop mode for ET: Quake Wars Demo?

Guessing can be some wm, compositor, game, driver issue... "it works or optimized for this, but not quite good for that" not common thing, but can happen No driver can be fast always and everywhere .

At first try to reproduce it, maybe that hits only Michael's card there

[Michael]

At first try to reproduce it, maybe that hits only Michael's card there

As said in the article, these are some independent user's results -- not my results.

[dungeon]

As said in the article, these are some independent user's results -- not my results.

Ah OK then, might be only that user issue .

[Luke_Wolf]

Michael, any idea what's up with the test data's display server? It looks like it just dumped all possible linux values.

Display Server: Wayland Weston + X Server 1.12.4 + SurfaceFlinger + GNOME Shell Wayland

[maslascher]

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...PL-STEAMOSSE57

Doesn't look like it has much of a performance impact.

However last time I tried, BPM itself was a resource hog. It constantly saturated one of my cpu cores.

Gnome Shell is not exactly something lightweight on resources and if Big Picture Mode is even more heavier than it is disappointing.

[rikkinho]

hm

Gnome Shell is not exactly something lightweight on resources and if Big Picture Mode is even more heavier than it is disappointing.

the OS is not ready, we need to wait and see, in most of the games it's marginal, to complete this test we need to compare to ubuntu unity and arch kde and gnome for example and see who have better fps