GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming
When starting things off with the GravityMark OpenGL and Vulkan benchmark, there was little difference between the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops when using the Wayland session. But it was interesting to note that the KDE Wayland session was delivering slightly better performance than the KDE X11 session when running at 4K.
Firing up other games, it was again interesting to see that the KDE Wayland session was delivering slightly better performance than the KDE X11 desktop session with the likes of Counter-Strike 2.
DiRT Rally 2.0 was one of the few exceptions where the KDE Plasma Wayland session led to slightly lower performance than the X11 session or relative to the GNOME Wayland use on Ubuntu 25.04.
It was good to see both GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 delivering similar performance under their Wayland sessions on Ubuntu 25.04 while using the open-source AMD Radeon graphics drivers.