Ubuntu 26.04 With GNOME 50 Offering Some Performance Benefits For NVIDIA Linux Gaming

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 11 March 2026 at 11:36 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 29 Comments.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Low. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Low, Total Frame Time. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Quality Level: Low. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Quality Level: Low, Total Frame Time. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Ultra. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Ultra, Total Frame Time. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 25.10 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Medium. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Medium, Total Frame Time. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Quality Level: Medium. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Quality Level: Medium, Total Frame Time. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

With HITMAN both of these GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell graphics cards were enjoying better performance on Ubuntu 26.04. Again, the same NVIDIA 590.48.01 driver on both Ubuntu releases. These HITMAN performance improvements under Steam Play were some quite healthy gains considering the same NVIDIA R590 driver in use.

👁 Strange Brigade benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Graphics Setting: Low. RTX 5090: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

👁 Strange Brigade benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Graphics Setting: High. RTX 5080: Ubuntu 26.04 was the fastest.

With Strange Brigade there was just an ever so slight performance gain on Ubuntu 26.04.

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