Wayland vs. X.Org Gaming Ubuntu 21.04 Ubuntu 21.04 Linux gaming benchmarks by Michael Larabel under (X)Wayland with GNOME Shell Wayland session compared to GNOME X.Org session. Wayland-XWayland: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core @ 3.70GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (3402 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus + 2000GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 16GB (2575/1000MHz), Audio: AMD Device ab28, Monitor: ASUS VP28U, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 OS: Ubuntu 21.04, Kernel: 5.11.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.38.4, Display Server: X Server + Wayland, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.1 (LLVM 11.0.1), Vulkan: 1.2.145, Compiler: GCC 10.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 X.Org: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core @ 3.70GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (3402 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus + 2000GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 16GB (2575/1000MHz), Audio: AMD Device ab28, Monitor: ASUS VP28U, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 OS: Ubuntu 21.04, Kernel: 5.11.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.38.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.11, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.1 (LLVM 11.0.1), Vulkan: 1.2.145, Compiler: GCC 10.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Batman: Arkham Knight Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 257.50 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 255.98 |==================================================== Batman: Arkham Knight Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 122.45 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 122.04 |==================================================== Civilization VI Quality: Lowest - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 70.89 |============================================== X.Org ............ 82.53 |===================================================== Civilization VI Quality: Lowest - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 7.6 AVG: 14.1 MAX: 20.1 X.Org ............ MIN: 5.4 AVG: 12.2 MAX: 17.6 Civilization VI Quality: Highest - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 52.09 |============================================== X.Org ............ 60.41 |===================================================== Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 3840 x 2160 - Low Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 95.5 |====================================================== X.Org ............ 93.5 |===================================================== DiRT Rally 2.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 170.41 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 170.38 |==================================================== DiRT Rally 2.0 Resolution: 3840 x 1600 - Graphics Preset: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 116.22 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 116.33 |==================================================== F1 2020 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 192 |======================================================= X.Org ............ 187 |====================================================== F1 2020 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 3.3 AVG: 5.2 MAX: 27.8 X.Org ............ MIN: 3.3 AVG: 5.4 MAX: 28.9 F1 2020 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Graphics Preset: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 144 |======================================================= X.Org ............ 138 |===================================================== F1 2020 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 4.4 AVG: 6.9 MAX: 31.8 X.Org ............ MIN: 4.2 AVG: 7.2 MAX: 29.7 HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 119.29 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 119.11 |==================================================== HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Ultra - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 2.5 AVG: 8.2 MAX: 57.5 X.Org ............ MIN: 2.6 AVG: 8.5 MAX: 46.3 HITMAN Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality Level: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 101.30 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 99.82 |=================================================== HITMAN Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality Level: Ultra - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 3.8 AVG: 9.9 MAX: 72.0 X.Org ............ MIN: 3.0 AVG: 10.1 MAX: 56.1 HITMAN 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 138.34 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 130.80 |================================================= HITMAN 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Ultra - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 2.3 AVG: 7.3 MAX: 45.2 X.Org ............ MIN: 2.5 AVG: 7.6 MAX: 46.2 HITMAN 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality Level: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 84.37 |===================================================== X.Org ............ 84.02 |===================================================== HITMAN 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality Level: Ultra - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 5.0 AVG: 11.8 MAX: 43.2 X.Org ............ MIN: 4.9 AVG: 11.9 MAX: 45.0 Portal 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 522.37 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 513.48 |=================================================== Portal 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 786.85 |=================================================== X.Org ............ 798.56 |==================================================== Portal 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 527.88 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 514.33 |=================================================== Portal 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 553.95 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 553.61 |==================================================== The Talos Principle Renderer: Vulkan - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 191.7 |===================================================== X.Org ............ 192.4 |===================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 756.79 |=================================================== X.Org ............ 777.74 |==================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 785.19 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 790.68 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 469.26 |================================================== X.Org ............ 489.71 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 402.09 |================================================== X.Org ............ 419.58 |==================================================== X-Plane 11 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: High - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 171.72 |=================================================== X.Org ............ 173.74 |==================================================== X-Plane 11 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: High - Renderer: Vulkan - Per Frame Timing ms < Lower Is Better Wayland-XWayland . MIN: 0.5 AVG: 2.8 MAX: 4.1 X.Org ............ MIN: 0.4 AVG: 2.7 MAX: 4.0 Basemark GPU 1.2 Renderer: Vulkan - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: High FPS > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 276.60 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 277.08 |==================================================== Basemark GPU 1.2 Renderer: Vulkan - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Graphics Preset: High FPS > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 149.05 |==================================================== X.Org ............ 148.74 |==================================================== Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: High - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Wayland-XWayland . 166.3 |===================================================== X.Org ............ 166.4 |=====================================================