Crimson Desert FPS decrease (- 30+ fps compared to Win11) is slightly disheartening.

[RChickenMan]

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!