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[–] [email protected] 173 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Tldw: guy tests the RX 6800 at 1080p, 1440p and 4k across 19 games on Windows 11 vs Nobara 41.

Allegedly, nobara beats windows on all games except 2 (witcher 3 and CS2), across almost all resolutions, by around single digit percents.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Also: This was on kernel 6.11, which does not have the new NTSYNC driver (coming in 6.14). It's going to get even better soon.

CS2 was tested on proton, but CS2 runs natively. It's not a useful comparison.

Edit: Someone pointed out that Nobara has already manually backpatched NTSYNC into its kernel.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Nobara uses a custom kernel with lots of performance tweaks and wine-compatibility patches. It has had NTSYNC for almost a year already. Also, NTSYNC is not much faster than FSYNC, that many kernels and distros (including SteamOS) have been using since 2021.

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