Just 3 years ago, we lived in a world where overhauling new AMD hardware running Linux, even months after release, was problematic at best. My review of the Radeon RX 6800 here at Forbes was limited to Windows because, despite working with the tech geniuses and graphics driver gurus of the Linux community, the GPU was highly unlikely to work on Linux distributions.
But in 2024, we’ll find ourselves in a world where a new Linux operating formula called Bazzite will support Asus ROG Ally on Ubuntu instead of Windows. In fact, Linux scores huge victories in cross-platform gaming benchmarks.
Phoronix recently completed a battery of tests on the new Asus Zenbook S 16. By presenting Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24. 04 in more than a hundred tests, Canonical’s lacheck distribution earned a functionality merit of just under 3% in the research of the geometric mean of everything. Check results.
The real focus of attention appears in the graphics tests. AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series is an SoC (system on chip) that integrates Radeon 880M graphics. Phoronix put the Radeon 880M through its paces across cross-platform artificial benchmarks such as Unigine Superposition, Unvanquished, and Furmark to test OpenGL and Vulkan functionality. Above all, the open source Mesa driver stack was used in conjunction with the Linux 6. 10 kernel.
Ubuntu 24. 04 won 15 out of 21 tests. And he won by a wide margin.
Windows scored a small win with Unigine Su, consistent with the position’s OpenGL benchmark, with a 5% functionality merit (in practice, that’s a difference of less than 2 frames per second). But Ubuntu 24. 04 took the crown in Vulkan’s tests.
In the popular Furmark Vulkan demo, Ubuntu outperformed Windows 11 by 59%. Yes, nine out of five.
Windows is affected by Vulkan’s raw performance.
In the Unvanquished cross-platform FPS, Ubuntu 24. 04 maintains a notable lead, outperforming Windows 11 by between 8% and 36% of multi-quality presets. It’s a similar story with Yamagi Quake II (an advanced open-source consumer for Quake II), like Ubuntu. it advances to a ridiculous 44% in the most productive case, and advances slightly through a rounding error in the “worst” result.
This is important, because all of those tests run natively on either operating system, rather than a compatibility layer like Valve’s Proton on Linux. It’s Windows versus Linux on an equal footing.
It seems that the merit of this functionality is temporarily becoming the norm, not the exception. In April, Phoronix conducted another battery tests of over a hundred on the Framework 16 laptop. Ubuntu also took the crown, beating Windows across the board by 20%.
Wallpaper for Ubuntu 24. 04 LTS “Noble Numbat”
So, unexpectedly, is it fitting that the default wallpaper for Ubuntu 24. 04 has a crown, with a decidedly majestic color gradient?That said, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Linux distributions with better-tuned kernels have an even bigger advantage than the former. noted in those Phoronix tests.
I can’t wait to see comparisons of real-world gaming functionality on the Ryzen nine AI 365 with the Radeon 880M. Will Linux succeed at a point where it can compete despite Proton’s overhead?
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