AMD Radeon With Linux 6.1 + Mesa 23.0-dev vs. NVIDIA R525 Gaming Performance

The F1 22 racing game recently has begun running reliably on both AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards under Linux using Valve's Steam Play. Thus running with that now for benchmarking given that I've found the quality comparable (or surpassing) that of F1 2021 on Steam Play. The Intel Arc Graphics with ANV though aren't yet able to work with F1 22 with the current state tested.

With 4K medium settings, the GeForce RTX 3060 / Radeon RX 6600 XT class hardware was still able to push well above the sixty FPS threshold for this racing game. The lower-end NVIDIA cards did run into some unexplained performance oddity with F1 22 at 4K.

Or with ultra high 4K settings, around the Radeon RX 6700 XT or RTX 3070 Ti and higher for enjoying this Windows game on Linux by way of Steam Play. (The RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070 were hanging with these settings while surprisingly the RTX 3060 managed fine.)

Cyberpunk 2077 has been running rather well in recent months with Steam Play and a later update to the game finally allowing for nice benchmarking support. Well, for the most part the support has been nice: with Mesa 23.0-devel used the game was hanging with the RADV driver. Hopefully that Mesa Git state will get sorted out soon while the NVIDIA R525 series driver had no issues handling Cyberpunk 2077 with Steam Play on Linux and even the Arc Graphics A770 were running -- albeit rather slowly. (UPDATE: The Cyberpunk 2077 Radeon issue has been sorted out with the latest Linux 6.1 Git code that was merged after this testing started. With latest kernel Git, Cyberpunk 2077 is running fine now.)

It's been great though aside from driver issues seeing more and more modern games working reliably on Linux thanks to Valve's Steam Play (Proton).