5% is right around the corner fellas
Wouldn’t this just be because the Windows scheduler is messed up with Zen 5 SMT?
Two problems:
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Benchmarks are not real world performance.
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Video card drivers are still not up to snuff as they are with windows, to the best of my knowledge. (don’t kill me if i’m wrong!)
From my experince AMD drivers are pretty close, I’d even say slightly better on GNU/Linux, definitely more stable and consistent. For Nvidia, yeah they are bad at supporting GNU/Linux. Improved a lot through the years but still not there. For Intel, well not exactly an option for gaming, at least not the integrated GPUs I have used so far, but still better than in Windows in a similar way as in AMD case.
P.S. Another great thing with libre/opensource GNU/Linux drivers: When you report a bug with Mesa3D drivers the bug is quite quickly fixed, especially when you can provide them with backtrace and/or Vulkan/OpenGL API trace. Doing a bisect of source code commits amd identifying the commit that introduced a regression also help a great deal. Good luck doing the same with closed/Windows drivers: you can wait for years and no fix.
oh shit
If Wendell’s investigations are found to be confirmed (higher gaming performance on Linux than Windows), this might legit be Linux’s year
I think the issue of gaming on linux hasn’t been performance for a while now (native and wine/proton performance can often beat windows) but compatibility - some games still can’t run on linux due to DRM, anti-cheat, etc. Things are gradually improving but I think that’s the main barrier for the time being
if the main barrier for entry seems to be compatibility (which is totally fair as DRM and anti-cheat can be a real pain in the ass) hopefully wine/proton (aka Steam) can come in clutch to help solve most if not all of these related issues (or anyone else that has the know to and desire to create another copyleft compatibility layer)
The problem is that modern DRM/anti-cheat often works at the kernel level, or by scanning the entire filesystem and running processes. They don’t work on linux by design, so the main route to compatibility is showing that there are enough people gaming on linux that they should seek other options for DRM and anti-cheat
