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Fresh RadeonSI Mesa Git Gaming Benchmarks On 7 Linux Desktops

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 24 February 2017 at 12:35 PM EST. Page 4 of 4. 36 Comments.

With Tesseract there was also minimal difference in performance between the tested desktops on Ubuntu 16.10.

With Team Fortress 2 was just a few frames difference between the fastest and slowest desktop options.

And lastly for today's testing, the Xonotic results barely budged between the testing of MATE, Xfce, GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma, Unity, Openbox, and LXDE.

So in a few cases there were performance differences -- most notably when running Dota 2 with Vulkan -- but for the majority of the Linux games tested, the performance is almost identical between the different modern Linux desktop options. This jives as well with other tests we've done in the months past with Intel and NVIDIA graphics hardware too. While long ago Compiz/Unity could be criticized for performance problems, we haven't really found that to be the case in some time.

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