Most Linux games, including those that use WINE/Proton require Xwayland to run, which as any compatibility layer has some performance impact.
KDE and Gnome being nearly identical, irrespective of X.org and (X)Wayland, was to be expected. Prior benchmarks came to the same conclusion, altough I believe to remember the gap between Wayland and X.org has been widening slightly.
It'd be interesting to see if games running natively on Wayland will change things a bit more, but I don't expect it to change performance any more than it did until now (barely measurable). Most of the performance issues of games is having enough compute to calculate the frames, not how they are presented.
But it's interesting that Gnome Wayland still has some unexpectedly worse results in a few cases, altough it's not a reason to choose any desktop over another.
But it's interesting that Gnome Wayland still has some unexpectedly worse results in a few cases, altough it's not a reason to choose any desktop over another.
I wonder if this is down to them taking KDE Neon and installing Gnome 42. Personally I've experienced dependency and config file issues when installing Gnome on a Plasma system/installing Plasma on a Gnome system.
Also seems utterly bizarre to me that they're choosing to benchmark a 2 year old release of Gnome against the just-released Plasma 6 which most distros haven't even packaged yet. They should be comparing against Gnome 45 or 46.
Is this… unexpected?
Genuine question.
Most Linux games, including those that use WINE/Proton require Xwayland to run, which as any compatibility layer has some performance impact.
KDE and Gnome being nearly identical, irrespective of X.org and (X)Wayland, was to be expected. Prior benchmarks came to the same conclusion, altough I believe to remember the gap between Wayland and X.org has been widening slightly.
It'd be interesting to see if games running natively on Wayland will change things a bit more, but I don't expect it to change performance any more than it did until now (barely measurable). Most of the performance issues of games is having enough compute to calculate the frames, not how they are presented.
But it's interesting that Gnome Wayland still has some unexpectedly worse results in a few cases, altough it's not a reason to choose any desktop over another.
I wonder if this is down to them taking KDE Neon and installing Gnome 42. Personally I've experienced dependency and config file issues when installing Gnome on a Plasma system/installing Plasma on a Gnome system.
Also seems utterly bizarre to me that they're choosing to benchmark a 2 year old release of Gnome against the just-released Plasma 6 which most distros haven't even packaged yet. They should be comparing against Gnome 45 or 46.