A Look At Linux Gaming Performance Scaling On The Threadripper 2950X

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 16 August 2018 at 08:57 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 19 Comments.
Threadripper 2950X - Radeon/NVIDIA Linux Gaming Thread Scaling

First up was Dawn of War III at 1080p with medium quality settings while using the Vulkan renderer. In this Feral-ported Linux game the frame-rates for both the GTX 1080 Ti and RX Vega 64 kept increasing until hitting eight threads. At 16 and 32 threads the frame-rates actually pulled back slightly, but at least this fairly new Linux game port was able to continue scaling up to eight threads.

Threadripper 2950X - Radeon/NVIDIA Linux Gaming Thread Scaling

Or at 1080p with maximum quality settings, the frame-rates stopped scaling on both GPUs after roughly four threads.

Threadripper 2950X - Radeon/NVIDIA Linux Gaming Thread Scaling

With F1 2017 at high quality settings, both graphics cards peaked at eight threads.

Threadripper 2950X - Radeon/NVIDIA Linux Gaming Thread Scaling
Threadripper 2950X - Radeon/NVIDIA Linux Gaming Thread Scaling
Threadripper 2950X - Radeon/NVIDIA Linux Gaming Thread Scaling
Threadripper 2950X - Radeon/NVIDIA Linux Gaming Thread Scaling

Or in the case of Mad Max at 1080p, the performance scaling really stopped at 2~4 threads. Mad Max is one of the Feral Linux ports now getting older and happened to be the first title where they were publicly testing their Vulkan renderer.


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