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Windows 11 vs Linux on 8GB RAM – Who Wins? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 85 points 3 months ago

Skimming the video, Windows 11 crashed on two games and everything else had parity or was slightly worse than Linux. Decent results.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They don't mention it in the description but this is mainly about kernel fixes and some associated utilities which have improved VRAM management on AMD GPUs on Linux. It's not upstreamed yet AFAICT, but that's why they used CachyOS which includes the patches and utilities out of the box.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

lemme guess.. cachyos, a tweaked-for-gaming bleeding-edge disto, vs a default oob win11 configuration.

i put iot on something here for some testing and it did quite well with latest drivers.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For those curious about which distribution because Linux alone does not mean much, from the description:

Windows 11 vs CachyOS gaming benchmark on 8GB RAM + RX 6650 XT

📽️ Captured with Elgato HD60 X (no FPS loss)

🖥️ Test Bench:
○ CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X (Stock)
○ MB: GIGABYTE X570 AUROS ELITE
○ RAM: 1x8GB DDR4 3600MHz CL14
○ Cooler: HYPER 212 AIR COOLER
○ NVMe: 120GB NVME, 2TB NVME
○ PSU: Corsair RM1000X
○ OS: CachyOS

○ GPU 1: GIGABYTE RX 6650 XT 8GB GDDR6 GAMING OC
○ Drivers: AMD Adrenalin 26.3.1 / MESA 26.0.5

Timestamps:
00:00 The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered
00:53 DOOM: The Dark Ages
01:42 Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2
02:29 Resident Evil: Requiem
03:17 Death Stranding 2 PC
04:03 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
04:50 Alan Wake 2
05:37 Red Dead Redemption 2
06:26 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
07:14 Windows 11 Configuration
07:35 CachyOS Configuration

[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

fuck windows don't even need to watch that shit

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah, at this point i won't even consider using it anymore. If it means i can't run a handful of games, so be it.

[–] exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago

😂😂😂

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can someone link the video? Im on phone and YouTube keeps breaking when trying to play it in the app.

Thank you!

[–] UndergroundGoblin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEo6Kb6Rhg

[+] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com -26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ostensibly, the one with less overhead. Part of the dream of DirectX was a lite statement that could focus on gaming — that ultimately became Xbox. So look at an Xbox One (not Series!) and run Linux on similar hardware (no SSD!) and see if you can beat it. I think it can be done but I’m not sure.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 107 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You're right. Linux has always struggled to compete with hypothetical versions of Windows that aren't available. But you see, for testing purposes, we're forced to use the Windows version from this timeline.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I know there are gaming-centric distros but I wonder, if someone built a Linux that was essentially a console equivalent, useless for anything else, how it would fare.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 months ago

That's just default Bazzite. There's not much included out the gate other than gaming dependencies.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

There is no fundamental performance difference between these "gaming" distros and any other ones. Some minor kernel tweak maybe net a few percentage points here and there, but the gaming stack is still the same across the board, and very little can be done to squeeze more performance there without each just getting performance improvements.

Even still, you'd just install those same versions on any other distro and get those performance benefits.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 11 points 3 months ago

It would be just fine. You can look at SteamOS on the Deck for exactly that (and I would assume the upcoming Desktop version will be similar). Bazzite in handheld mode is similar.

Much of the extra overhead comes from the desktop shell and window manager, so anything that swaps out stuff like Plasma or Gnome for something lighter is already on better footing.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Like the Steam Deck?

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Nintendo and PS are allegedly some variant of BSD, as is MacOs

[+] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com -7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I kinda wish the Xbox One didn't exist, too. I get what you're saying though, that stripped-down version of Windows isn't something you can get outside the console. Still, you not being able to use it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's still a fair thing to test against. Windows as a consumer grade OS isn't really meant for gaming. Xbox is Windows stripped down to what's needed for gaming. You can configure Linux to strip down for gaming, so why not compare apples to apples?

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

My commenter on the internet, consumer-facing Windows is bloat city and will not grant the freedom to cut down the garbage holding performance back like Linux Distros do. If you have Win10/11 Enterprise LTSC and run a few debloat scripts maybe, but that's not something an ordinary person can gain access to without piracy, and it's unlikely that the "stripped down Windows version for gaming" becomes a product without either restrictions or a price premium to the general public.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the funniest copium when the argument usually is "oh these games don't work on linux? That's because you should use windows cause it's actually what those games were meant to be played on!".

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

It sounds like you think I'm advocating for Windows? I assure you, I'm not.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 months ago

Wtf are you even talking about dude?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Overhead isn’t everything. Windows just handles swapping better than Linux. More efficient swapping can mean better performance even with more ram usage.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

Swap improvements are an ongoing thing being worked on. There are some pretty big boosts in the 7.0 kernel.