Whats the deal with the NVIDIA RTX 4090 in Linux?

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[mirkodiciano]

love that you guys threw in linux into the tests not many do

[baldpolnareff]

Yes please, more Linux testing! Not just gaming, but DaVinci Resolve, Blender and other professional app benchmarks too

[JTCPingas]

I switched to Linux last year and I would love to see more Linux focused content.

[raizenftw]

Linux getting the love it deserves makes me happy

[capsized]

It might be worthwhile giving glorious eggroll’s distro, nobara, a look at for the benchmarks. It includes a lot of gaming optimizations and packages preinstalled and even patched which would provide an accurate representation of the latest progress and patches while saving you the time of having to configure everything manually.

[jwaye]

Banger of video fams. Love seeing Linux content. Keep up the hard work

[XaeroVincent]

Gear Seekers, In regards to the benchmarking under Ubuntu, were you using the stock Linux 5.15 kernel or the new 6.0? Since 12th gen Alderlake CPUs have a big.LITTLE design, thread scheduling is somewhat flawed on kernels before 5.18, as that's when Thread Director support landed. Furthermore, the Futex_WaitV thread waiting and synchronization system call in 5.16 and newer further improves Proton performance by better matching the behavior of Windows. You might also want to make sure Gamemode is being used/running, so the governor is set to performance mode for gaming and clock source is set to TSC.

[goforbrokefilmstudios]

I'd love to see Linux focused tests that include "creative" workloads like 3D Rendering with Ray Tracing (Blender, Unreal Engine) for stills/animations, and video editing (DaVinci Resolve etc...).

[jangelelcangry]

I thought that it was going to be worse for Linux. It seems that their Linux drivers are not so bad.
Now if only their open source drivers were as good as Radeon.

[notjustforhackers]

Just curious Nick.. distro? X11 or wayland? It's still pretty much a given I'll be going AMD but I'd like a better understanding before I pull the lever. Thanks for these benchmarks regardless, you're a legend man.

[Phalaxis]

Great video fams! Not a Linux user but good you do this for those that are. Keep it up.

[jonaszprzybycien]

I would like to see this video being done for Arc graphics card. Nevertheless this is a very informative video, especially for people who dual boot windows and Linux

[bajannovazone]

great video, can wait for the day linux becomes a fully supported gaming platform

[MillerDvS]

Did you notice when using your 4090 on linux was your pc sluggish as if it was a single frame per second? This have been haplening but I have no idea whats going on.

[rdux]

More Linux! Would be interesting to see if there has been any changes over the last year, considering the 560 Nvidia drivers are now available on both platforms.

[andrewc]

thanks for the hard work ! more Linux content please !

[UTUBMRBUZZ]

Will be interesting to see a new benchmark with the new kernel and timer scheduler...

[JKhalaf]

Awesome job on testing things in Linux! Please do DaVinci Resolve on Linux tests too.

[harry.mishinev]

I wonder if the 4090 performs better on windows for Machine Learning tasks.

[Durayne]

Hi there,
just some Questions, since you were using Ubuntu, i guess you were using gnome as DE.
Were you using Wayland or Xorg? I am using KDE Plasma Xorg with kwin disabled on Arch with Nvidia as well.
For Unigine Superposition, I lose like repeatable 8% in Score on Wayland compared to Xorg.
AND running Unigine Superposition through Wine (Wine GE Proton) results in a higher Score than the native OpenGL version as well.