AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 8 April 2024 at 10:41 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 344 Comments.
DiRT Rally 2.0 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2560 x 1080, Graphics Preset: Ultra. GNOME Shell 42.9: Wayland was the fastest.
DiRT Rally 2.0 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 1600, Graphics Preset: Ultra. GNOME Shell 42.9: Wayland was the fastest.

DiRT Rally 2.0 running under Steam Play showed no performance difference between GNOME vs. KDE or X11 vs. (X)Wayland environments.

ET: Legacy benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. KDE Plasma 6.0.3: Wayland was the fastest.

The open-source ET: Legacy game worked equally well across all four environments.

F1 22 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Graphics Preset: Ultra High. GNOME Shell 42.9: X11 was the fastest.
F1 22 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Graphics Preset: Ultra High. KDE Plasma 6.0.3: Wayland was the fastest.
HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Quality Level: Ultra. KDE Plasma 6.0.3: X11 was the fastest.
HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Quality Level: Ultra, Total Frame Time. KDE Plasma 6.0.3: Wayland was the fastest.
HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Ultra. KDE Plasma 6.0.3: Wayland was the fastest.
HITMAN 3 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Quality Level: Ultra, Total Frame Time. KDE Plasma 6.0.3: Wayland was the fastest.

The F1 22 and HITMAN 3 games running under Steam Play showed the KDE Plasma 6.0 performance with the Wayland session working out as well as X11 and matching that of GNOME.

Metro: Last Light Redux benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. KDE Plasma 6.0.3: X11 was the fastest.

The KDE Plasma 6.0 experience overall was great and in my testing hadn't run into any Wayland issues with the shiny new desktop.


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