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

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 22 June 2023 at 01:16 PM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 29 Comments.
F1 22 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Graphics Preset: Low. Ubuntu 23.04 + Linux 6.4 + Mesa Git + Perf was the fastest.
F1 22 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Graphics Preset: High. Ubuntu 23.04 + Linux 6.4 + Mesa Git + Perf was the fastest.

F1 22 was a weird beast with the game acting up on Windows 11 as of testing time with it delivering very low performance. Meanwhile under Linux with Steam Play this racing game was running very well. Again, the performance ACPI Platform Profile is really needed to deliver good results on Linux for this ASUS gaming handheld.

HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Quality Level: Low. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.
HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Quality Level: Ultra. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.

HITMAN 3 on the ASUS ROG Ally could also deliver nice results on Linux when making use of Mesa Git (Mesa 23.2 was crashing on the Z1 Extreme) and setting to the ACPI Platform Profile of performance.

Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: On, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_query. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.
Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Global Illumination: High, Denoiser: On, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_query. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.
Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Global Illumination: Low, Denoiser: Off, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_query. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.
Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: Off, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_query. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.
Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Global Illumination: Medium, Denoiser: Off, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_query. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.
Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Global Illumination: Low, Denoiser: On, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.
Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: On, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. Windows 11 Turbo was the fastest.

Similar to the good Vulkan ray-tracing showing with GravityMark, Quake 2 RTX on Linux (native) could perform similar to the AMD Vulkan Windows driver in most cases for this game. With some settings Windows 11 still performed better, but overall was a nice showing for RADV RT performance on this RDNA3 GPU.


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