ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times
www.tomshardware.com
Jury's still out on Microsoft's optimization.
  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    78·
    16 hours ago

    Someone else already explained (after watching the video) why this test is flawed.

    "This is purely from a broken test. Watch the video and you’ll see that its not testing with the same power limits.

    17w tests are actually 16w vs 20w+ and 35w test is 25w vs 35w

    This leads to drastically higher clock speeds on both cpu and gpu as seen in the video and thus higher fps (and power draw, so lower battery life)

    https://vger.to/lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22164759

    • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      19·
      14 hours ago

      Thanks for linking my post, it’s a shame Tom’s hasn’t updated their post as it’s discussed in the comments there too.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I tried to make sure it got quoted but my app doesn’t do well with copying the user so I did it this way so people would know it certainly wasn’t me who saw the flaw.

        If it helps UFD tech on YouTube also reported off the Tom’s Guide article, spouting the same flawed data as the headline.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      81·
      13 hours ago

      Heh, my money was on it being shaders like most times this comes up. Steam+Proton gets a downloaded shader precache. Windows does it live.