14-Way AMD vs. NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For DiRT Showdown

[heliosh]

Does it run on Intel IGP (HD 4600)?

[dungeon]

So like other eON wrapped games i guess there is variabile for nVidia in a script?

[nightmarex]

I don't get it why AMD has worse drivers under Linux than under Windows. Is it because Nvidia always creates profiles for those AAA games under Linux and AMD just under Win?

This game is EON it isn't native. The benchmarks are like benchmarking wine games. Michael made clickbait, anyone who reads these and takes them seriously ^ fanbois above should be shot. Why doesn't Michael test the hundreds of DX9 games with wine/gallium 9 that oss AMD destroys Nvidia in? These benchmarks are stupid and pointless.

As far as why Nvidia official is better than AMD official on Linux, is due to the single threaded cap, in normal games it isn't a super concern but in EON/wine games (look up GW2 for example) it really gives nvidia a boost. Michael, shame on you.

[bug77]

byECHO The cards included are all the card Michael has in his posession, afaik.

marceel Windows is usually DirectX/Direct3D, while Linux is OpenGL. AMD/ATI has traditionally sucked at implementing OpenGL. Nvidia bought a top-notch OpenGL team/implementation when they acquired 3dfx and they have been going strong in this area ever since.

[Pontostroy]

1920x1080 medum settings
radeon 7790 Linux Mesa 11-devel - 21 fps
radeon 7790 windows 8 catalyst - 52 fps

[marceel]

nVidia is way better than AMD with Linus harsh words or not. I'm AMD fanboy myself but sometimes I really don't care about brands or policies, I just want them to works.

I don't get it why AMD has worse drivers under Linux than under Windows. Is it because Nvidia always creates profiles for those AAA games under Linux and AMD just under Win?

[Klassic Six]

nVidia is way better than AMD with Linus harsh words or not. I'm AMD fanboy myself but sometimes I really don't care about brands or policies, I just want them to works.

[byECHO]

Hi Micheal,

Can you test middle-end cards(like GT840, GT940 etc..)?

[liamdawe]

When i tested it at the start of august i did note the issue of the game hanging: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articl...rt-report.5758

This was the reason the game was delayed during my testing:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dirt-showdown-for-linux-delayed-for-polishing.5768

Please anyone including Michael who gets the hangs, email VP your eon.txt logs from the hangs!

[GreekGeek]

Hi Michael & Yall,

thanks for the testing! Pity about the differences but unfortunately, not surprising.

390X owner with "buyers remorse...."

GreekGeek