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Cyberpunk runs 30% faster on linux than on windows 11 (m.youtube.com)

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The YouTube channel "Maximum Fury" conducted a technical test of the new Cyberpunk add-on called "Phantom Liberty" on an older AMD hardware system, testing it separately on Linux and Windows 11. The Linux system, specifically the Fedora distribution called Nobara, performed significantly better, delivering 31% more frames compared to Windows 11.

The hardware used for testing included an Asrock B550 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU from the first RDNA generation, along with 16 GB of DDR4 RAM. The CPU, RAM, and GPU were overclocked, and the system utilized undervolting to save energy costs.

When testing the game at 1080p resolution with high textures, the Linux system achieved an average of 63.72 frames per second (fps), while Windows 11 managed only 48.55 fps. This suggests that the game should run noticeably smoother on the Linux system.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's no such thing as magic. Some computation is absolutely getting skipped.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but that's not necessarily a bad thing; if the Linux version is missing useful output that would be bad, but if the DX to Vulkan translation ironed out a performance regression, or the scheduler works better in this scenario, or filesystem access had issues with NTFS it could also cause performance differences in Linux favour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I guess I agree, but because the title felt a lot like a youtube channel clickbait promo, I bit. In an opposite way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's usually called optimization ;⁠-⁠)

Also don't know how much stuff runs in the background on W11, maybe there is now more stuff needing memory and CPU time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, that is not what optimisation is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Was meant with tongue in cheek - at least that was meant with the smiley

But still, could very much think of some hungry background processes. I'm just guessing, as I don't run Win11 anywhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

... Is probably defender