NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 2 February 2022 at 08:30 AM EST. Page 2 of 5. 83 Comments.
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Taking the (X)Wayland route for Steam Play titles like Batman: Arkham Knight showed only a minor performance difference compared to the long-standing X.Org session.

NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In the case of the DDRaceNetwork cooperative platformer game, using the GNOME Wayland session led to better performance on this NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 desktop system -- granted, it wouldn't make a meaningful difference to end-users in the case of the GeForce RTX 3090 level of performance.

NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
NVIDIA RTX 3090 GNOME (X)Wayland Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

DiRT Rally 2.0 and F1 2020 as two additional Steam Play games were showing strong performance with the NVIDIA 510 driver paired with the GNOME Wayland session.


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