AMD Radeon With Linux 6.1 + Mesa 23.0-dev vs. NVIDIA R525 Gaming Performance

Like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Total War: Three Kingdoms is another Linux port by Feral Interactive. Also like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with Mesa 23.0-devel Git as of testing time was encountering hangs on a few of the lower-end AMD graphics cards tested.

The same goes for Total War: Warhammer III.

Unigine Superposition continues to enjoy great RadeonSI driver performance relative to the NVIDIA OpenGL driver.

With GravityMark's OpenGL renderer, the NVIDIA driver is in more competitive shape against RadeonSI. However, with GravityMark's Vulkan renderer there were hangs encountered with the NVIDIA driver.

The RADV ray-tracing performance continues maturing but at least as of testing in late November was still showing the RDNA2 performance a ways behind the RTX 30 series graphics cards.

That's the quick look at where the performance currently stands when using Mesa 23.0-devel Git and the Linux 6.1 kernel compared to the NVIDIA 525 series Linux driver. Of course, this month will also be interesting on the open-source Linux driver front given the retail availability for the Radeon RX 7900 series, the Linux 6.2 merge window coming upon us, and Mesa Git continuing to see interesting Vulkan/OpenGL driver developments still on a daily basis.