AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 22 January 2025 at 12:00 PM EST. Page 2 of 5. 13 Comments.

Counter-Strike 2 on Linux continues running well both for AMD and NVIDIA graphics comfortably at 4K with the higher-end SKUs. No real surprises here besides being curious where the RTX 50 and RX 90x0 series performance will fit in.

For Counter-Strike 2 at 4K, the AMD Radeon graphics with the AMDGPU kernel driver tended to spend more time toward their upper power limits compared to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards (aside from the RTX 4070) that spent more of their time at the lower performance states compared to the AMD behavior.

Grand Theft Auto 5 running on Linux under Valve's Steam Play continues to perform much better with NVIDIA graphics than with Radeon graphics. This isn't some new driver change but something I've been seeing for a long time now with GTA5 on Linux with NVIDIA carrying the upper-hand in my benchmark for this game.

HITMAN running under Steam Play meanwhile is where the RADV Vulkan driver has continued to be quite competitive with the NVIDIA Vulkan proprietary driver performance. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX isn't too far behind the RTX 4090 at 4K.

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