NVIDIA Gaming Performance Minimally Impacted By KPTI Patches

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 4 January 2018 at 12:57 PM EST. Page 2 of 4. 6 Comments.
KPTI NVIDIA Benchmarks Linux 4.14
KPTI NVIDIA Benchmarks Linux 4.14

Whether at 1080p or 4K, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that is very CPU dependent these days barely budged a frame when the Kernel Page Table Isolation was enabled in the kernel build.

KPTI NVIDIA Benchmarks Linux 4.14

With the more demanding Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Linux game port, the GTX 1060 lost by just one frame on average after the 3+ runs while the GTX 1080 Ti saw no change in performance.

KPTI NVIDIA Benchmarks Linux 4.14
KPTI NVIDIA Benchmarks Linux 4.14
KPTI NVIDIA Benchmarks Linux 4.14
KPTI NVIDIA Benchmarks Linux 4.14

Dota 2 with OpenGL and Vulkan saw no change in performance besides a possible frame or two difference, nothing that gamers would notice on their own.


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