NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Performance

For those wondering how the NVIDIA Linux gaming/GPU performance is looking relative to Windows 11, here are some benchmarks using the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards. Both NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics cards were tested on Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu 23.04 while primarily focusing on games making use of Valve's Steam Play to reflect current Linux gaming trends as well as featuring some other cross-platform GPU accelerated software.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-windows11-ubuntu2304

[mbriar]

Was this using Proton 7 stable or experimental for the game tests?

[Michael]

Was this using Proton 7 stable or experimental for the game tests?

experimental I use unless otherwise noted in an article.

[pracedru]

Very impressive. Also for the DX -> Vulkan games. Valves work has really made Linux a great platform for windows games.

[RejectModernity]

Maybe test some vulkan games?

[HEL88]

Maybe some tests of DLSS2 and DLSS3 on Linux?

Eg. Cyberpunk with path tracing and DLSS 2 & 3.

[mbriar]

Maybe test some vulkan games?

Personally I find D3D test more interesting when it comes to windows vs linux, for vulkan games you can be pretty sure it'll be within ~5% of each other anyways since it's essentially the same driver. Also more broadly relevant because D3D12 games outnumber vulkan games by at least 10 to 1.

[mbriar]

Maybe some tests of DLSS2 and DLSS3 on Linux?

Eg. Cyberpunk with path tracing and DLSS 2 & 3.

DLSS3 frame generation doesn't work on linux yet.

[ryao]

The game selection is too sparse, which limits how interesting these results are. A wider selection like what the websites benchmarking exclusively on Windows use would be best:

https://www.techspot.com/review/2099-geforce-rtx-3080/

[Goddard]

Forgive my ignorance, but I am curious would SteamOS beat Ubuntu?