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[Edit: flawed results] ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Edit: The video of that's the original source of the test results had flawed testing for some of the games and seemingly didn't set the same tdp limits when switching between the OSs. I'm guessing we'll see other people test this out later, but for the time being it's best to assume these results are exaggerated or wrong.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's another video on it that goes more in depth: https://youtu.be/CJXp3UYj50Q

Basically the SteamOS version gets better fps in most games while also have way better battery life. Lower power games would get 2x the battery life when fps when both versions were targeting the same settings/fps.

Basically windows naturally has more overhead than Linux, which really impacts performance/battery life in low power games. But vulkan also typically outperforms directX, so many directX see a noticable performance increase on SteamOS as well (although some amount of this performance gain can be had on windows as well by using dxvk).

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I'll take a look later but quick check he is using two different devices which means its not identical hardware/ firmware.

Also there are many many many more cases where performance has been the same

https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsOnDeck/comments/1fo7ngs/better_game_performance_on_windows_or_steam_os/

And countless others who see no difference between windows and Linux.

Most times if there is is due to dxvk / Proton fixing a game bug/bottleneck, or invalid testing with not identical settings/hardware.

There is no way windows is using more power and giving lower clock rates without some other bug effecting it.

Edit: finished the video. He didn't show any actual testing its basically as in depth as the Tom's article.