Thought this was a pretty interesting video for high end Linux gaming
How about a summary?
He tested 17 games. In all games running VKD3D the XTX outperforms the 4080 Super by about 10-20% per game as expected with Raster only. He tested one game running DXVK and one native game and they both favored the 4080 Super.
When enabling Ray Tracing there was a clear advantage for the 4080 Super with generally higher average FPS. A common symptom however with VKD3D is lower 1% and 0.1% lows on the 4080 Super. Even if the average FPS is higher.
I’m not the one who asked but thank you for summarising! It’s late here and I’m too tired for a whole video, so this helped me. Those results are interesting. I’ve been planning on switching from Windows to Linux as my main OS; last time I tried was before the latest AM5/RDNA4 drivers were integrated, so I had terrible instability like Plasma crashing all the time and occasional lockups. I installed Windows 11 so I could at least get my work done, but if my environment can stay stable then it might be time to finish the move.
I just saw this reply now and wanted to tell you a bit of my experience as it doesn’t sound too far off from my own!
I think that move will work out nicely. I’ve been on a 5800X3D + 6800XT for a while now and completely switched to Linux for pretty much all gaming and desktop use 18 months ago. My experience with arch based distros running KDE Plasma has been virtually flawless.
I decided now before the new AMD cards are coming out to get my hands on a RTX 4080 Super just to see how far Nvidia on Linux has come before I make a decision in March on what vendor to go with.
I can confidently say both Nvidia and AMD run my setup (1x 2160p @ 120hz, 1x 2160p @ 240hz, 1x 1440p @ 120hz) in KDE Plasma without any problems at all in desktop use. But modern DirectX12 games will perform slightly better on AMD for the time being until Nvidia does something about their drivers on Linux.
So no matter what direction you are looking in the future I think right now is a super good time to make the switch to Linux!