Windows 10 Creators Update vs. Ubuntu 17.04 Linux Radeon Gaming Performance

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67391

    Windows 10 Creators Update vs. Ubuntu 17.04 Linux Radeon Gaming Performance

    Phoronix: Windows 10 Creators Update vs. Ubuntu 17.04 Linux Radeon Gaming Performance

    Given Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update earlier this month and the never-ending advancements to the open-source Linux graphics driver stack along with the recent release of Ubuntu 17.04, here are some fresh benchmarks of Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux when running a wide variety of cross-platform games with an AMD Radeon RX 580 and R9 Fury graphics cards.

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  • tildearrow
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2016
    • 7099

    #2
    Typo:

    Originally posted by phoronix View Post
    as can be seen from the Mesa 17.2-dev results bieng faster than Mesa 17.0

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    • asdfgh
      Junior Member
      • Sep 2008
      • 26

      #3
      Rather interesting to see some GL tests w/ & w/o mesa_glthread=true

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      • danieru
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2014
        • 160

        #4
        haha openarena was faster on linux than on windows, great news news for me as a potential AMD GPU buyer seeying that AMD is putting remarcable effort on Linux, speacially good for me as an openarena player. I just wish that AMD could fix that gamma bug on mesa or xorg where r_gamma is ignored

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        • Jahimself
          Phoronix Member
          • Oct 2016
          • 72

          #5
          Again and again, Linux open source narrowing the gap with windows. It is very encouraging when you think that most game benchmarked are made for windows, and only "translated" to OpenGL. If these game were made with linux in mind, I think we can affirm that AMD cards could at least challenge windows 10 if not outperforming it.

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          • profoundWHALE
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2013
            • 1199

            #6
            You can tell exactly which games are using some sort of compatibility layer, and which ones are native. It's good to see Linux beating Windows when they are both running the game natively.

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            • Shevchen
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2016
              • 237

              #7
              We could hope, that in the future properly translated or even OS-agnostic code will be used. In general, I have the impression that Linux has the potential to be even faster than Windows if the games are written "good" (we already have a few examples) - and that things like Star Citizen may become even preferred to be used on Linux. Anyhow, the performance is good enough to switch for good.

              Thanks for the test!

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              • anarki2
                Senior Member
                • Mar 2010
                • 861

                #8
                Originally posted by danieru View Post
                haha openarena was faster on linux than on windows, great news news for me as a potential AMD GPU buyer seeying that AMD is putting remarcable effort on Linux, speacially good for me as an openarena player. I just wish that AMD could fix that gamma bug on mesa or xorg where r_gamma is ignored
                I think it has more to do with the fact that OpenArena devs focus on Unix performance than the AMD drivers being better when running OpenArena (and nothing else) or whatever you're trying to imply here.

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                • tomtomme
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2012
                  • 902

                  #9
                  nice article michael!
                  But why are source / source 2 engine games missing? And Hitman and Serious Sam with Vulkan... I thought all those were automated, but maybe not on win 10?

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                  • agd5f
                    AMD Graphics Driver Developer
                    • Dec 2007
                    • 3939

                    #10
                    Originally posted by danieru View Post
                    haha openarena was faster on linux than on windows, great news news for me as a potential AMD GPU buyer seeying that AMD is putting remarcable effort on Linux, speacially good for me as an openarena player. I just wish that AMD could fix that gamma bug on mesa or xorg where r_gamma is ignored
                    That's actually an xserver bug rather than a driver bug and it's been fixed in a recent xserver.

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