Windows 11 vs. Linux Gaming Performance On The ASUS ROG Ally

Right away with Cyberpunk 2077 running on the ASUS ROG Ally under Linux with Steam Play, we see the huge difference in performance between the default "balanced" ACPI Platform Profile and going for the "performance" profile. With the performance profile runs on Linux, the Cyberpunk 2077 performance was mid-way between the default Windows 11 performance and that of the turbo profile...

Even with high quality settings, Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam Play was delivering comparable performance to Windows 11. Not bad at all once making that ACPI Platform Profile change as otherwise the out-of-the-box Linux experience was very poor.

With the native but not publicly available GravityMark Linux build, Ubuntu 23.04 on the ASUS ROG Ally was able to match the Windows 11 performance when the ACPI Platform Profile was set to the performance profile rather than the default balanced state.

With GravityMark's OpenGL benchmark for stressing the RDNA3 GPU well, the performance platform profile continued helping out compared to the default balanced mode. However, the OpenGL performance on Windows was still at an advantage over RadeonSI on Linux.

Interestingly though with the GravityMark Vulkan test case, the RADV driver when the ROG Ally was running with the ACPI Platform Profile for performance it delivered better performance than Windows 11 with the latest AMD Vulkan driver.

It was also very interesting to see GravityMark with Vulkan ray-tracing on RADV was able to match the Windows performance when it was operating in the performance platform profile... RADV's Vulkan ray-tracing has come a long way over the past year especially.