Ubuntu 19.04 Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Popular Desktops Benchmarked, Wayland vs. X.Org

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 18 April 2019 at 08:45 AM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 21 Comments.
Ubuntu 19.04 Desktops Radeon Graphics Benchmarks
Ubuntu 19.04 Desktops Radeon Graphics Benchmarks
Ubuntu 19.04 Desktops Radeon Graphics Benchmarks
Ubuntu 19.04 Desktops Radeon Graphics Benchmarks

With Thrones of Britannia and Warhammer II, two of the newer Linux+Vulkan game ports by Feral Interactive, there wasn't any real gaming performance difference to note.

Ubuntu 19.04 Desktops Radeon Graphics Benchmarks

With the lightweight Xonotic game, MATE and Xfce and GNOME Shell Wayland actually led to slightly better results but not something any gamers would notice as all the results were around ~250+ FPS.

Ubuntu 19.04 Desktops Radeon Graphics Benchmarks

When running the X-Plane 11 flight simulator, the only difference to note for this demanding OpenGL simulator was GNOME Shell on Wayland running slower than the X.Org-based sessions.


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