Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop Gaming Benchmarks: Unity, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, KDE, Openbox, MATE
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 18 October 2016 at 04:00 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 44 Comments.
Similar to Tesseract, the MATE and Xfce performance were much slower than the rest with the Xonotic open-source game.
With the synthetic GpuTest OpenGL workloads the non-composited Openbox and LXDE desktops were noticeably faster.