Fresh RadeonSI Mesa Git Gaming Benchmarks On 7 Linux Desktops

First up is HITMAN given the popularity of this game on Linux with it just being released by Feral Interactive... The performance ranged from 92 to 95 FPS across the seven tested desktop options on Ubuntu 16.10. Unity was right in the middle.

When looking at the frame time with HITMAN, there weren't any big surprises either caused by the desktop.

With Metro Last Light Redux, there was a minimal impact as well of the tested desktop options on the RadeonSI performance with the R9 Fury graphics card.

With the CPU-bound Portal game already running at several hundred frames per second with the R9 Fury, there was some difference between the desktops, but overall not too much. MATE was the slowest followed by KDE Plasma 5 and Xfce, then Unity right in the middle, and within 1% of Unity was GNOME Shell, LXDE, and Openbox as the fastest.