Ryzen 7 2700 / Ryzen 7 2700X / Core i7 8700K Linux Gaming Performance With RX Vega 64, GTX 1080 Ti

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 21 May 2018 at 07:00 AM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 42 Comments.
Ryzen 2700, Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7 8700K Linux Ubuntu Gaming

The X-Plane 11 flight simulator is largely CPU bound.

Ryzen 2700, Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7 8700K Linux Ubuntu Gaming

The Tesseract open-source OpenGL game is one of the rare scenarios where the RX Vega 64 actually outperformed the GTX 1080 Ti with the Ryzen 7 2700X and Core i7 8700K processors.

Ryzen 2700, Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7 8700K Linux Ubuntu Gaming
Ryzen 2700, Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7 8700K Linux Ubuntu Gaming

Xonotic at the higher visual quality settings is also another scenario where the RX Vega 64 does happen to outperform the GTX 1080 Ti due to driver differences albeit both with correct rendering.

Ryzen 2700, Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7 8700K Linux Ubuntu Gaming
Ryzen 2700, Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7 8700K Linux Ubuntu Gaming

Lastly are the results from OpenArena.

Those interested can find more of these Linux gaming benchmarks over on OpenBenchmarking.org. Additionally, Premium supporters can make additional test requests here.

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