NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For August 2023

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 10 August 2023 at 11:16 AM EDT. Page 2 of 6. 37 Comments.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080. RTX 4090 was the fastest.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RTX 4090 was the fastest.

The Linux-native but private build of 3DMark Wild Life Extreme continues to be a fun benchmark test case. With the GeForce RTX 4060 that's our first time having this card in a large Linux comparison since purchasing it shows a similar standing to what I previously showed on the compute side: the RTX 4060 on Linux is a nice upgrade from the RTX 3060 but disappointing in comparison to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti performance. For 3D Mark Wild Life Extreme on the latest Linux drivers, the RTX 4060 came out slightly ahead of the Radeon RX 7600.

3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RTX 4090 was the fastest.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RTX 4090 was the fastest.

The Radeon RX 7000 series and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series were quite competitive in this benchmark test case when it came to the power efficiency.

GravityMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Renderer: Vulkan. RX 7900 XTX was the fastest.
GravityMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Renderer: Vulkan. RX 7900 XTX was the fastest.

I still encounter GravityMark hanging on NVIDIA cards when benchmarking them but here is a look at the AMD Radeon results on Mesa 23.3-devel for those curious.

Strange Brigade benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2560 x 1440, Graphics Setting: Ultra. RTX 4090 was the fastest.
Strange Brigade benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Graphics Setting: Ultra. RTX 4090 was the fastest.

The AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards continue to be quite competitive on their respective Linux drivers for the Strange Brigade game that runs under Steam Play on Linux.


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