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Comment by ncr100

5 months ago

Is this testing the same graphics performance / i.e. screenshot-accurate comparison vs Windows?

Shame you have been downvoted. That's a reasonable question no matter where you stand. Motion is important too, not just static screen-shots.

I am 100% team Linux but cross-platform benchmarking is rife with problems. Differences are often from not testing the exactly same thing or different defaults that trade-off safety/quality/perf and can in theory be changed. No point measuring only one side of a triangle whose ratios are a matter of taste.

A responsible benchmark would try and prove fidelity.

  • <3 and, sharing internet +1 coinage to you too.

    (this is Hacker News after all, seems like a reasonable question to me too)

    I had not thought about Motion...good one.

    Agreed regarding a responsible benchmark.

    All that exploration could help illuminate (ha) the path to a user-first "Desired frames per second" Graphical Setting in game set-ups. "I just want 60 / 120 / don't-care 30 is okay". With nVidia going bonkers with new AI interpolation features the users may want a "minimum 60 please".

    It's a soft feature that Consoles have, IMO, though with variable rate refresh panels I feel it's less of a draw.

    Does Linux have workable VRR support?