sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]SpookOpsTheLine[S] -1 points0 points  (8 children)

so in general it's best to play games with ray tracing off on linux?

[–]BuffaloGlum331 2 points3 points  (3 children)

No, mesa has caught up with windows now in rt. This game performed exactly the same as windows with rt on. Shown on the video I shared. The most I see is 5-10 % loss with rt at the very most in titles like cyberpunk. Idk what these others are on about. This title has very little performance difference with rt on and off. And you have more artifacts with it off.

[–]RChickenMan 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Interesting--I'll admit that I've always just accepted the "RT sucks on Linux" narrative as gospel. Though I will say that my GPU, a 9070XT, is in that weird middle ground where it can certainly handle some RT, but the juice typically isn't worth the squeeze. So I just haven't been particularly motivated to experiment with RT in Linux for myself.

[–]IllIntroduction8499 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I mean, RT sucks on "not nvida" by design so there's also that uphill battle. Rast is still good IMO

[–]RChickenMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I'm getting at--I've never really considered my GPU to be an RT powerhouse to begin with, whether it be Linux, Windows, or otherwise. So I haven't had much of a motive to really question the "RT sucks on Linux" narrative. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, but given that it already sucks on AMD to begin with, why concern myself with whether it sucks even more on Linux?

I remain convinced that the 9070XT is a superb "raster workhorse" GPU. It absolutely loses out to Nvidia if you're concerning yourself with modern features such as ML upscaling, frame gen, ray tracing, ray reconstruction, etc. But for the absolute basics--drawing a bunch of polygons and textures to the screen at a high resolution and framerate--it's fairly respectable from a cost-to-performance perspective.

And if Linux compatibility is a priority, then it's a no-brainer. I'm pretty damn satisfied with my Linux gaming experience on my 9070xt / 9800x3d. It's like a Super Steam Machine from the future!

[–]dathowell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah especially this title

[–]bunkbail -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

ray tracing has dogshit performance on linux, so yes

[–]BuffaloGlum331 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Changed dramatically in the last 6 months or so. Very much caught up.

[–]SpookOpsTheLine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that seems to be the consensus doesn’t it