KDE Plasma 6.6 Showing Frequent Performance Advantage Over GNOME 50 With NVIDIA R595 Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 27 March 2026 at 11:24 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 105 Comments.

With the Cyberpunk 2077 game running on Linux via Steam Play, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 performance was quite similar between these desktop environments on Ubuntu 26.04.

👁 DDraceNetwork benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Mode: Fullscreen, Renderer: Vulkan, Zoom: Default, Demo: Multeasymap. Plasma 6.6.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 DDraceNetwork benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Mode: Fullscreen, Renderer: Vulkan, Zoom: Default, Demo: Multeasymap, Total Frame Time. Plasma 6.6.3 Wayland was the fastest.

The DDNet platformer game was much faster on Plasma Wayland than GNOME 50.

👁 DiRT Rally 2.0 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 4096 x 2304, Graphics Preset: Low. Plasma 6.6.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Ultra. Plasma 6.6.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Ultra, Total Frame Time. Plasma 6.6.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Quality Level: Medium. Plasma 6.6.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Quality Level: Medium, Total Frame Time. Plasma 6.6.3 Wayland was the fastest.

DiRT Rally 2 and HITMAN were two other Steam Play games on Linux showing nice performance leads with nice performance leads for KDE Plasma 6.6 over GNOME 50.

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