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Really nice!
Fedora 40 beats Windows 11 in Gaming
Also very well done bechmarks, keeping thermal throttling and power profiles in mind.
I wonder what tuned will improve here further.
This still runs through a translation layer and proves that Linux is more efficient.
To be fair, this is a really small sample of games. Testing only 4 games will often provide misleading results.
In my experience, while there are some games that run better on Linux, it is only on a small percentage of games.
Also, this is a really specific use-case. Gaming on a 7840u mobile device at low settings.
It would be interesting to see someone do a bigger test on more diverse hardware.
Agreed. Peak performance is also way less important than general performance or even software support. If some software doesnt run at all…
As someone not really into gaming, I also think there is a ton of Windows software that would be needed more on Linux, than games.
Phronix Has been benchmarks linux against windows 11 for a while.
Last time they tested games I recall linux was ahead for most games tested.
It has been that way for a few years.
Still if you look into the results ubuntu and arch are two distros always comes ahead of fedora in all benchmark as per phoronix benchmark.
I don’t know why though but it is what it is.
I would expect it is down to trade offs on kernel feature config.
Each distro has it’s own view on how the kernel should be configured.
I forget to mension clear linux is also higher performing compare to fedorabut i think performance is a big deal
I find ubuntu have overall better performance just look at the report
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-ubuntu2404-fedora40/2
yes I also wonder, Ubuntu often scores better than Fedora, consistently, in a lot of tests. even boot speed, even though they preload Snaps afaik
That is not the conclusion, see page 6 that says:
Out of 77 benchmarks run on all the Linux configurations, Clear Linux was in first place around 71% of the time to Ubuntu 24.04 leading just 5% of the time and Fedora Workstation 40 with wins 22% of the time.
Also this:
Most often, Ubuntu 24.04 was the slowest of the tested Linux operating systems on this Intel Core i9 14900K desktop.
Clear linux is compiled for x86-64-v2 microarchitecture.
Fedora does not want to use the x86-64-v2 globally as that would stop it working on a lot of older systems and newer low end CPUs. But there is runtime CPU detection that switches in fast algorithms in some apps.