NVIDIA R530 vs. AMD Linux 6.3 + Mesa 23.2-dev Gaming Performance

First up is the newest graphics benchmark... 3DMark Wild Life Extreme. Yes, that's 3DMark Wild Life Extreme running natively on Linux with the Vulkan API. UL has quietly been maintaining a native Linux build of 3DMark for use by hardware vendors and partners. Unfortunately they aren't publicly releasing it, but have provided it to Phoronix for use in our driver comparisons and hardware reviews. Hopefully in the future they decide to release this native Linux build publicly as it's been working out quite well in the few weeks I've been experimenting with it.

Even with the Mesa RADV driver not being tuned for 3DMark Wild Life, it was running well there up against NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack.

3DMark Wild Life Extreme at 4K on Linux was showing the Radeon RX 7900 XTX competing neck-and-neck with the GeForce RTX 4080. For the benefit of the Radeon graphics cards, it's with a fully open-source driver stack.

On the CS side, it will obviously be more interesting this summer looking at the Counter-Strike 2 performance on Linux.