X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce & AMD Radeon On Ubuntu 22.04

[middy]

Why Gnome shell? It's probably the worst compositor for gaming these days (on Wayland at least). I've heard multiple horror stories about performance, stuttering and etc.

What would be interesting is to compare multiple compositors for that.

gnome user since 40 here with a 6900 xt and a 5800x. performance has been great for me. my only complaint is lack of freesync because gnome wants to wait for KMS changes in the kernel for a proper fix apparently all freesync implementations in use on wayland face.

the only other one i know of, but haven't ran into is 1000hz mice. but i just keep my mouse at 125hz because i honestly can't tell the difference and not worth bombing my system 1,000 times a second saying "hello, this is mouse." i've never been a cs:go "pro." but, i saw gnome 42 is bringing more fixes for that issue.

[Cotyso]

Nvidia driver is still buggy on xwayland though. I've tried playing skyrim but it's very choppy and stuttery. Same with the witcher 3, had to go back to xorg to finish that one.

[shmerl]

Yea, sure a bug report from the middle ages...

Smart comment for sure. May be comment again when adaptive sync will be working.

[_ONH_]

Yea, sure a bug report from the middle ages...

[shmerl]

From who? It has some of the most mature support of Wayland to the extent that conspiracy theorists think Wayland was made by Gnome for Gnome.

I've seen some posts about weird latency / sync issues, stuttering and so on. You can call it however you want, but dismissive attitude is not helping your argument that it's not an issue.

Example: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1455

So I very much dispute it being mature for gaming. It doesn't even have adaptive sync support still.

[nist]

And without a compositor at all?

[Myownfriend]

Why Gnome shell? It's probably the worst compositor for gaming these days (on Wayland at least). I've heard multiple horror stories about performance, stuttering and etc.

From who? It has some of the most mature support of Wayland to the extent that conspiracy theorists think Wayland was made by Gnome for Gnome.

[shmerl]

Why Gnome shell? It's probably the worst compositor for gaming these days (on Wayland at least). I've heard multiple horror stories about performance, stuttering and etc.

What would be interesting is to compare multiple compositors for that.

[cl333r]

The benchmark shows that AMD has properly integrated Wayland support and Nvidia didn't (yet).
The Wayland session should either be equal to X11 or a tiny bit faster, "a tiny bit" because Wayland has little to do with more FPS, it's about a much more responsive and modern display server.

[bisby]

It seems like in most cases, the difference is margin of error, and a user should make the decision of which to use on things other than gaming.

If you have a 3090, then the difference is always negligible. I would be interested to see if the largest gaps shrink on older/weaker hardware, or if they grow (ie, is it a 5% loss, that will take you from 30 to 28, or is it a 10fps loss that will take you from 30 to 20.).

Either way, I've got a nice AMD card, so I'll be sticking with wayland.