Red Dead Redemption 2 actually performs better on Linux than Windows with AMD Graphics

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/19/2020 09:11 AM | source: FlightlessMango (YouTube) | 81 comment(s)

Based on a video comparison by FlightlessMango you'll observe that in a comparison between Linux and Windows versions, Red Dead Redemption 2 runs faster on Linux with an AMD graphics card.

The man made use of a Core i7 8700k with 16GB of RAM running at 3200Mhz and an AMD Radeon Vega 56 graphics card for both operating systems. For Linux, it used the drivers Mesa-git 20.2.0 , amdvlk-2020.Q2.4-1, and amdgpu-pro-20.10 . For Windows, meanwhile, he used the AMD Radeon Adrenalin 20.5.1 driver.

You'll notice that the game performed a notch better on that Linux platform than on Windows 10. Now we shouldn't make it too dramatic, as at 1080p, the benchmark on Linux was faster by 3-5FPS in average frames per second. For NVIDIA that is the opposite, and seems to run slower.

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Passus
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#5801134 Posted on: 06/19/2020 09:52 AM

I tried ubuntu 20.04 yesterday,, kept having software crashes all over the place

GoldenX86
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#5801145 Posted on: 06/19/2020 10:11 AM

I tried ubuntu 20.04 yesterday,, kept having software crashes all over the place

Anyone with years of Linux will tell you that Ubuntu is not the best distro option 99% of the time.

I hope AMD someday incorporates the fixes and improvements of the Linux drivers on Windows, specially for OpenGL.

yasamoka
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#5801158 Posted on: 06/19/2020 10:42 AM

I tried ubuntu 20.04 yesterday,, kept having software crashes all over the place

More details ...? I mean, this doesn't really help.

Passus
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#5801161 Posted on: 06/19/2020 10:51 AM

More details ...? I mean, this doesn't really help.

Well as im very new to linux distros i can only say that they were system software errors and i kept being asked to "report the problem"

what that problem was i have no idea

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#5801169 Posted on: 06/19/2020 11:23 AM

The good thing here is that wine has a really low overhead.
That makes moving away from window and keep playing easier.
For me that i most of the time develop and sometime games, keeping an entire windows build just to boot wow is an overkill.

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