cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37914772
In a not-so-scientific benchmark conducted by YouTuber Cyber Dopamine, the Rog Xbox Ally managed to perform better without Windows, the operating system it ships with out of the box. Cyber installed Bazzite, a popular Linux distro for handhelds built specifically to offer that console-esque, seamless experience. Visually, Bazzite looks identical to SteamOS because it uses Steam’s Big Picture Mode as its main launcher. It also behaves similarly, but has its own custom menus and settings for customizing things like power profiles (which override Asus’ built-in ones).
When testing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Cyber noticed a shockingly significant jump in FPS, with Linux generating ~32% more FPS compared to Windows. This trend follows at lower wattages, albeit with less noticeable differences, and the delta actually plateaus in Hogwarts Legacy to the point that both Bazzite and the Xbox FSE offer the same FPS at 13W. That being said, those frame rates are much more consistent on Linux, according to Cyber, who shows that the FPS graph on Windows fluctuates regularly, while staying mostly flat on Bazzite.
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Yet another Linux W.
I love the smell of irony in the early afternoon.
It’s bad test.
Watch the video the tdp, clock speeds for cpu and gpu are much higher on Linux which accounts for the differences
Cyber dopamine himself says he’s not a benchmark guy as well.
I like him a lot, he’s really passionate and a positive breath of fresh air online, but the guy is surely stoned nearly 100% of the time. No way I’m taking his technical tests at face value.
60-80% better frames on Bazzite for space marine 2 was just too much to not be an error.
Is that something that can be tweaked on the Windows side? Because if you can’t mess with it on windows, one may argue that the comparison is valid because Linux allows you to tweak those settings
They are supposed to have the same settings, the Linux ones are just wrong and using more power than told It’s supposed to be capped to 17 but pulling over 20 vs 16 on windows. That’s a lot more lower resulting in higher fps but lower battery life.
