Initial Linux Benchmarks Of The NVIDIA TITAN RTX Graphics Card For Compute & Gaming

Should you have the luxury of being able to afford a $2500 USD graphics card for Linux gaming, here is a look at how the TITAN RTX stacks up compared to the RX 58-, RX 590, RX Vega 56, RX Vega 64, GTX 980, GTX 980 Ti, GTX TITAN X (GM200), GTX 1060, GTX 1070, GTX 1070 Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1080 Ti, RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti FE. Again from the benchmarking done earlier this month and with the AMD open-source driver stack being from Linux 4.20 with Mesa 19.0-devel.

Keep in mind currently there are no Vulkan ray-tracing Linux games for making use of the RT cores on the Turing graphics cards.

F1 2018 runs on Linux under Steam Play with there not being a native port at this time. While the average FPS was just slightly ahead of the RTX 2080 Ti, it's worth pointing out the minimum frame-rate here at 4K with ultra high quality settings being nine FPS higher than the 2080 Ti: 42 vs. 33.

When checking out a few of the TITAN RTX Windows benchmarks published this week, in some cases there seem to be a situation of the TITAN RTX performance at times coming in below the RTX 2080 Ti. In my Linux tests thus far I have not found that to be the case with the OpenGL or Vulkan Linux games tested. Though granted the gaming performance of the TITAN RTX over the RTX 2080 Ti isn't nearly as exciting as the GPU compute performance.

NVIDIA's latest RTX graphics cards certainly make it possible to enjoy 4K Linux gaming.