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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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[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 151 points 2 years ago (28 children)

A 30% increase in performance just might get gamers to switch over to the new operating system.

Hell that is the difference between a better graphics card for some people. It's like getting a free overclock, just for going outside your comfort zone.

[–] cron@feddit.de 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is just one game with one particular graphics card, this might not be the same for example with nvidia cards.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

I'd be surprised if it is.

I can't see anything but something hinky with driver overhead mattering this much.

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