

In both results, Pop!_OS comes out 14% ahead over Windows 10 in average framerate. The former uses OpenGL and the latter utilizes Vulkan.
#Benchmark games 1080p#
System76 Oryx Pro: 1080p Gaming on Steam with Windows 10 and Pop!_OS 19.04 Jason Evangelhoĭirt Rally and Total War: Three Kingdoms are both native to each operating system (with the Linux ports handled by Feral Interactive). To avoid any run-to-run variations, only built-in benchmark tools were used. The latest Steam beta is used on both installations, and all games are running from the 500GB NVMe drive. On the Nvidia driver side, Windows 10 is rocking version 431.36, and Pop!_OS utilizes the latest stable Nvidia proprietary driver which is 430.34. I tested 6 games total (2 that are native to each platform, and 4 that run on Linux via Steam Proton) with Windows 10 version 1903 and the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS 19.04 with Linux kernel 5.0. So I figured what the heck? Let's do a head-to-head, Linux versus Windows 10 benchmark run and see what shakes out.


It also happily runs Windows 10 because it's basically a Clevo, and System76 linked me to a couple missing drivers to get stuff like the RGB keyboard lit up. It packs an Nvidia GTX 2070 Max-Q graphics card, 6-Core Intel Core i7-8750H CPU and 16GB of RAM. I have an Oryx Pro laptop from Linux PC manufacturer System76 (the company behind Thelio and Pop OS).
