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 4 of 5. 29 Comments.
The native GravityMark benchmark for both the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs were seeing better performance on Ubuntu 26.04 with the top-end GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. The RTX 5080 performance was flat in these tests between Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme with Vulkan for this native Linux build was seeing some nice performance gains on Ubuntu 26.04 with the GeForce RTX 5090.
With the Vulkan ray-tracing heavy 3DMark Solar Bay Extreme native graphics benchmark on Linux there was little performance change between the Ubuntu Linux releases tested.