The RadeonSI/RADV Linux Gaming Performance With Ubuntu 19.04 vs. 18.10

First up was Deus Ex: Mankind Divided as one of the most demanding OpenGL Linux games still, at least as far as native, benchmark-friendly titles are considered. With the RX 580 Polaris its performance actually fell back by a few frames on Ubuntu 19.04 while the Vega graphics cards were coming out slightly ahead.

DiRT Rally 2.0, which was recently released for Microsoft Windows, continues running great under Steam Play with Proton/DXVK. But the performance of DiRT Rally 2.0 with RADV is slightly lower on all three tested graphics cards when using Ubuntu 19.04.

While Dota 2's Vulkan renderer is quite mature at this point, its performance came out slightly ahead on RADV from Mesa 19.0 on Ubuntu 19.04.

Dawn of War III, which was tested using its OpenGL renderer, saw the same performance on Polaris while the Vega performance was slightly faster on Ubuntu 19.04.