{"id":371,"date":"2026-03-11T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:28:17","slug":"someone-recently-created-a-comment-to-my-2022-performance-of-second-life-in-firestorm-viewer-on-windows-vs-natively-running-in-mint-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/someone-recently-created-a-comment-to-my-2022-performance-of-second-life-in-firestorm-viewer-on-windows-vs-natively-running-in-mint-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone recently created a comment to my 2022 Performance of Second Life using Firestorm Viewer on Windows vs Natively running in Mint Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, that 4 year old information is quite dated at this point.\u00a0 I like making new posts about performance comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>This is a controlled(able) test method of my own design to get a benchmark result, your mileage will vary.\u00a0 I move my camera into the sky on a sim in SL that has no people present other than myself. Record the FPS. Post it here. This is not typical of a dynamic location in Second Life as you move around, with that many variables in a dynamic it would be impossible to create a real benchmark.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a controlled benchmark test. All systems are not overclocked at the CPU or GPU level beyond the factory settings OC on GPUs out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Graphics Settings in Firestorm Viewer are set to Anisotropic ON, SMAA, and HIGH, the limit frame rate feature is disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: The January 2026 and newer versions of Adrenaline for Windows seem to have significant OpenGL optimizations made by AMD, this does not appear to apply to the rocM for linux drivers created by AMD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOFTWARE used for ALL Testing<\/p>\n<p>Mint 22.2<br \/>\nWindows 11 Pro<br \/>\nFirestorm Viewer release 7.2.3<br \/>\nAMD Adrenaline driver 26.2.2 for Windows<br \/>\nAMD Rocm 7.2.2 driver for Linux<\/p>\n<p>Systems and results<\/p>\n<p>E<br \/>\nCPU Intel 14700K<br \/>\nArtic II 280mm CPU cooler<br \/>\nRAM 64GB DDR5 6000 S5 G.Skill<br \/>\nGPU PowerColor Spectral Hellhound 7900 XT<\/p>\n<p>Results:<br \/>\nLinux\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0889 FPS<br \/>\nWindows 729 FPS<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nCPU AMD 9900x<br \/>\nArtic III 280mm CPU cooler<br \/>\nRAM 64GB DDR5 6000 FlareX G.skill<br \/>\nGPU PowerColor Spectral Hellhound 9070 XT<\/p>\n<p>Results:<br \/>\nLinux\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 802 FPS<br \/>\nWindows 829 FPS<\/p>\n<p>S<br \/>\nCPU AMD 9950x<br \/>\nThermalRight Assasin 120mm CPU cooler<br \/>\nRAM 32GB DDR5 6000 FlareX G.Skill<br \/>\nGPU Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT GAMING OC<\/p>\n<p>Results:<br \/>\nLinux\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 894 FPS<br \/>\nWindows 1088 FPS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, that 4 year old information is quite dated at this point.\u00a0 I like making new posts about performance comparisons. This is a controlled(able) test method of my own design to get a benchmark result, your mileage will vary.\u00a0 I move my camera into the sky on a sim in SL that has no people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,15,26,43,44],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-benchmark","tag-firestorm-viewer","tag-performance","tag-second-life","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensmeshinsl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}