GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 28 March 2025 at 11:42 AM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 90 Comments.

👁 Strange Brigade benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Graphics Setting: Low. GNOME 48 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 Strange Brigade benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Graphics Setting: Ultra. GNOME 48 Wayland was the fastest.

With Strange Brigade running on Steam Play, the KDE X11 desktop session ran into big issues but ran fine with KDE Wayland.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Mode: Windowed, Quality: Low, Renderer: OpenGL. KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Low, Renderer: OpenGL. GNOME 48 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: High. GNOME 48 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultra. KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Medium. KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Wayland was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: High. KDE Plasma 6.3.3 X11 was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultimate. KDE Plasma 6.3.3 X11 was the fastest.

👁 GPUScore: Breaking Limit benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Ray-Tracing: Off. KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Wayland was the fastest.

Across a variety of graphics and gaming workloads tested, it was great seeing Plasma 6.3 and GNOME 48 delivering similar performance with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics on Ubuntu 25.04 beta.

👁 Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Ubuntu 25.04 Desktops Linux Gaming. GNOME 48 Wayland was the fastest.

There was a clear trend too of the KDE Wayland desktop delivering slightly better performance than using the KDE X11 desktop session. Paired with the show-stopping experience trying to use the GNOME X11 session on Ubuntu 25.04 and then paired with the KDE performance results, Wayland certainly is shining on Ubuntu 25.04.

More Ubuntu 25.04 benchmarks to come with other hardware and other workloads/scenarios over the coming weeks leading up to the Ubuntu 25.04 stable release in mid-April.

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