Best Compositor For Gaming?

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#1

Has anyone tested which compositor in 16.04 works the best with gaming?

#2

I have not tested compiz or compton for gaming, but marco + composit works for our games. I run an older geForce.

#3

I use Compiz, which behaves just fine. On my system (NVIDIA, proprietary drivers), software marco produces screen tearing. I haven’t tried Compton yet.

I’d say either GPU-based compositors would be better suited for gaming then CPU-based ones if using an NVIDIA card.

#4

I use the marco (compton GPU compositor) and I think gaming looks beautiful with it.

#5

In this benchmark, MATE scores very badly (FPS) compared to Unity and other DE’s.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu-xenial-skldesk&num=1

#6

I get different results when testing with glxgears.

~$ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.395 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.001 FPS
#7

Did you even look at the benchmarks in the Phoronix article?

And glxgears is not a benchmark, its only a very basic opengl support test.

#8

Ofcourse, did I study it? No

Of course it holds not contest to Phoronix, I didn’t think that need be said.

#9

According to those results if gaming FPS is your goal it would be more prudent to look at a different DE (like Unity) than the different compositors available on MATE.

According to Michael “More tests – including from other GPUs/drivers – are still baking” so I would be on the look-out for those results.