Youtuber Maximum Fury posted a video showing that Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.0 runs 31.2 percent faster on Linux than on Windows 11. Both tests used the same PC architecture, with an AMD processor and an AMD GPU.
The processor was an AMD Ryzen 5 5600, while the video card was an AMD Radeon 5700 XT. The Maximum Fury also uses 16GB of DDR4 memory. The YouTube user overclocked the CPU and GPU in both cases and used an ASRock B550M Pro4 motherboard.
Cyberpunk 2077, with patch 2.0 installed, achieved an average frame rate of 48.55 fps on the Windows 11 22H2 build. This is evident from the record scores of the game itself. On Nobara Linux distribution, the game achieved an average frame rate of 63.72 fps. These results were achieved by setting the game resolution to 1920 x 1080 in both cases texture Quality on high And do not use HDR. It wasn’t used either Beam TracingOr VSync or AMD FSR.
It’s unclear whether any other changes or patches have improved Cyberpunk 2077’s performance on Linux. says the YouTuber in a comment below the video However, the SMT patch introduced in game patch 2.0 has widened the previous performance gap between Windows and Linux.
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