I will disagree and that's why I made this video. Been benchmarking games for 3 years now, mostly on AMD systems. It went from about same performance, to slightly better, to this. 17% average improvement is nothing to laugh at. It's the difference between a 4090 and a 7900XTX on Windows. So people can literally save $1000 just by using Linux.

What you say, does mostly apply to Nvidia users though.

It's comparable more often than not, but honestly even if it was 17% worse on average I would still stick to Linux and just build a better computer. Which is what I did before proton.

Could be both. Who knows. For high performance computing Linux is the de facto standard because it has better performances than windows, and Linux distros are usually better, stabler OSes overall when one needs raw performances. In this case, who knows, someone should investigate further

Combination, and it depends on the game. Dxvk will add latency, but depending on the renderer and how the game runs the reduction in CPU overhead by using dxvk instead of native can provide performance gains, especially on certain CPU's.

On games with a native vulkan renderer, Linux will most often just be faster since you have less system overhead burden. This has been fascinating to see though.

• First the games started to become playable, but framerates weren't so great.
• Framerates started to improve
• Framerates started to become a wash between Windows vs Linux
• We are progressing into this step: it either runs comparably or better.

The results are mixed right now, and it's going to be real hard to nail down predictability as far as performance goes. More often than not, so long as DRM isn't involved, games run really well on day one. Older games are starting to see a performance uplift and reliability improvements through proton/dxvk/vkd3d.

I'm very happy though that what we're talking about is comparable performance metrics. We use to be content if the shit ran at all.

Proton (DXVK/VKD3D) is faster. The lightness of the system also helps.

They are only sampling ten paaticular games. If they included all games or even just games that run poorly then it would be far behind. I use Linux on my desktop but will still boot into windows rather than fussing with it.

I don't even check protondb anymore. If it's a single player game with no anticheats involved, I know it'll work.

The only reason I still have a windows Partition, is due to the lack of HDR support on Linux.

With proton and all the work value (and others) put into it, we're at the point where it's weird if something doesn't work on Linux.

Especially on laptops, where VRAM is halved in comparison to desktop models for whatever reason.

Hahaha, I will admit the previous title was somewhat in people's faces. I just went with a factual title this time. XD

Sounds like a problem with the game

How are these cherry picked games? Did you maybe want me to benchmark the 2k games in your library? XD

Also CS2 is slower on Linux.

• Yeah Adaptive quality aims for 60 FPS. In this particular situation it shouldn't matter at all.
• Still the difference is quite high to even get close to Linux. I didn't even notice that sorry.
• The aim of this video is to show fresh installs. What a user would do. You install OpenSUSE on an AMD system and fire up the games. You install Windows, run the updates, install the drivers and fire up the games. That's whta most people would do and I think they care about. Both installations are fresh out of the oven and I just ran the game son them. This is the result.
• Yeah without an overlay FF Benchmarks are pretty bad. XD Great series though!