Ubuntu 16.04 VS Windows 10 : Deus Ex Mankind Divided on a GTX 1070 (OpenGL4 vs DX12)
425In this video, I take a focused look at the Linux port of Deus Ex Mankind Divided from a technical and performance aspect.
Timeline links:
1. Intro 0:00
2. Denuvo 0:15
3. Graphics API 0:27
4. Loading times 0:38
5. CPU and RAM usage 0:56
6. Graphics settings 1:11
7. Image quality 1:36
8. Side-by-side Ultra DX12vOGL4 1080p 2:01
9. Side-by-side Ultra DX11vOGL4 1080p 2:46
9. Graphs 3:31
10. Frametime 4:16
11. PS4 Dualshock 4 controller 4:36
12. Xbox 360 controller 4:46
13. Summary 4:56
I used the following Nvidia drivers throughout this video, unless specified otherwise:
Ubuntu with 375.10
Windows with 375.70
Deus Ex Mankind Divided is running with DirectX11 and DirectX12 in Windows, and on Linux it's running an OpenGL 4 context.
MSAA was off for both platforms. This title is already pushing the boundaries of modern gaming hardware, adding MSAA on top of it is unrealistic. Temporal AA was used instead on both.
On Windows, power settings are set to High Performance. On Ubuntu, cpufreq is also set to Performance.
On Ubuntu and on Windows I utilized the Steam FPS counter to ensure that it calculated the frames the same way.
To collect the frametimes and frame logs, I used GLXOSD v3 on Ubuntu and FRAPs on Windows. I was unable to gather frametimes for DX12 as all tools on Windows did not work during my testing (Fraps, MSI afterburner, PrecisionX).
Just to clarify, some have privately asked if the recordings were done with a windowed-mode of the game. This is not the case. All benchmarks and recordings were done with the game being in fullscreen mode. The only time I used the windowed-mode in DXMD is to show off the controllers working in Ubuntu.
I hope I have not made any mistakes. I took about 3 days to make this video. The tests were redone a number of times to try and normalise the results in the graph as much as possible.
Please feel free to share your experience in the comments below, but I do ask that you at least run through the same settings in the benchmark as I have to keep your experience as close as 1:1 to that of my own.
This video is recorded at 1080p 60fps. I used the Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4k capture card externally here, so there is NO performance loss on either system due to recording.
If you love stealthy action games with rpg elements, enjoy first person shooters and the Deus Ex series, then Deus Ex Mankind Divided is a must get for your Linux gaming library!
Purchase and Download Deus Ex Mankind Divided here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/337000/
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https://store.feralinteractive.com/en/mac-linux-games/deusexmd/
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My main computer rig specs:
CPU - Intel i7-4770 3.4Ghz
GPU - Nvidia GTX 1070 8GB
RAM - 16GB DDR3 ADATA 1600MHz
OS - Ubuntu 16.04 64Bit/Windows 10 Pro 64Bit (Dual Boot)
Video recorded using:
Media Express
Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4k
Audacity 2.1.2
Blue Yeti Mic
Video edited using the following software:
KDENLIVE 16.11.70
GIMP 2.8.16
Download Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 for free:
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My small development blog:
techpromad.wordpress.com
My alias in ubuntuforums.org:
myromance123
About me:
I'm just a Malaysian, who loves Ubuntu and Linux, and more so gaming!
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