Pop!_OS vs Ubuntu 18.10 | Gaming Benchmarks, Comparisons, & Review

Let's compare Ubuntu 18.10 to Pop OS 18.10 and see how they do for resource usage and gaming performance!

System Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB
RAM: Kingston HyperX 16GB
MOBO: ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA

I'm still experimenting with formats for these Benchmark Comparison videos. Let me know if you love em or hate em!

Pop_OS is effectively a clone of Ubuntu with some extra software sources and custom daemons tossed in. It's a Linux distribution made by the folks at System76 who are well known for their hardware (Laptops).

PopOS comes in two flavors, an LTS version based on Ubuntu 18.04LTS, and a version based on whatever non-LTS version of Ubuntu is out at the time.
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[AkiraElMittico]

There is a lot of screen tearing, you have to enable " Full composition pipeline " and "Force composition pipeline" on the Nvidia settings 👍

[Egeexyz]

My apologizes for the tearing and other random issues (weird transitions, etc)! I had never-ending technical difficulties producing this video 😭. Please let me know what you think of this format and what you'd like to see me benchmark in the comments!! 🙏

[EricAdamsYT]

Glad to see some love for Pop OS. It runs much better than Ubuntu on my laptop. I hope people give it a try.

[lewismackay]

A lot of your poor performance is clearly due to your CPU+GPU. A 8350 and 760 will not get you above 30fps on Deus Ex. You are looking at pretty standard performance for that hardware. You really need to update your hardware for testing many of these games.

[cotizcesar]

This guys expect run in 60fps+ with a GTX 760.

[kokapeli]

Pop Os here I come! I just nuked my Windows partition so Im going 100% LINUX! Thanks for the great content Egee!

[Dizintegrator]

Can you add a windows (10) comparison for a baseline, since most of gamers are using it?

[NathOnGames]

While this is an old video, something that's bothering me is the FX-8350. It's very old and notoriously bad for IPC which is important for games. (Even at the time this video was recorded) If Pop-OS uses less resources on the CPU by default this may explain some of the deviation, even native games to windows would run poorly on a fx-8350... But the GTX760 isn't going to be 60 fps either so it's going to dip all over the place. I appreciate what you produced and enjoyed the video but I just felt like I needed to mention that.

[Larryk]

you need to update the ubuntu drivers and do the peer-to-peer comparison

[AdeelMuhammad]

I am currently running ubuntu 18.10 on Lenovo X1 Carbon 1st Gen (everything working fine even fingerprint reader and 3G modem)
but i am going to format the SSD and install POP_OS as i need to use it just for basic tasks like browsing net etc and hope that POP_OS is smoother and faster than Ubuntu. and fingerprint sensor works on that as well as it did in ubuntu

[Michael-ihfp]

This doesn't test the differences between operating systems. This most likely tests the differences between drivers and operating which you cannot come to any conclusions. You need to use the same drivers to see which OS has more going on in the background and which is more optimized. I cannot make any conclusions from this video to determine whether I should switch or not...

[SrdSilent]

Good to see some Pop OS love. I recently found it to be the ONLY Linux distro that worked on my alienware laptop out of the box, having the gpu drivers pre-installed just made it such a smooth transition for those that want to get into linux gaming without the hassle.

[xowishuwereherex]

You need a 970 or 980 4GB to take advantage of most modern games. The video card you have is underpowered for most of the game you tested

[Xeno_Bardock]

You can fix tearing by enabling "Force Composition Pipeline" and "Force Full Composition Pipeline" from Nvidia Settings. And then save X configuration file to

[BrandenMcNabb]

2:16AM Central Time. I see a notification. Should I watch it now? Yeah, why the hell not?

[xEducatedFoolx]

Great video, though since I run AMD the benchmarks are a bit irrelevant for me :p So some more focus on the "comparison" and less benchmarks would be good in the future and might also save you some time in production? ;) (the Pop-theme works great under Ubuntu with their ppa by the way...if anyone wants the look and feel without changing distro completely)

[Ankitpal]

Great work done! Keep up! and thank you so much for sharing this!

[suyashshandilya]

Ironic! I've been fed up wtih the screen tearing in my Ubuntu and I still think it's a HW problem. While watching this video I thought it had aggravated untill I visited this comment section.
Also, are you saying that the performance difference is all borne out of driver version difference? If it is, then we can do a heck of a lot more optimisation like getting rid of gnome for a lighter DE?

[SasanCooper]

Great work. You are my favorite Linux channel.

[zaskoda]

Would have loved to have seen the mad max benchmark on the Ubuntu system with the updated Nvidia driver.