2y ago

Is there a way to improve cpu performance with wine/proton?

In windows I got 1800 points

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For a CPU benchmark like this, something is definitely weird because wine shouldn't be translating anything. I wonder if the benchmark might be doing weird things with the Windows API.
That sounds like you're hitting an edge case and it might not be representative of the actual performance you can expect out of Wine.
Have you tried other benchmarks?
- No
  I'm thinking of testing Cinebench
  Are there any other tests I could check?
  
  Find something which has native linux version as well, e.g. passmark performance test.
  Run on win, linux and win version in wine. Comparing the 3 results you can figure out if wine is the problem, or some settings in linux if wine and linux results are similar
Yeah this is weird. CPU instructions aren't being translated by Wine/Proton, as I understand it. It's not emulation.
I suspect there's something in the reporting which is actually giving you false figures.
Do you get better numbers with Windows on the same PC?
- Yes, 500 points more
  
  I’m curious if this is caused by the fact that wine/proton is an API emulation layer. Whatever API calls this app uses for benchmarking may be less efficient, or maybe emulated, rather than talking directly to hardware. It should also be noted that these benchmark numbers are probably not indicative of actual game performance, as games likely use different API calls that are well or better optimized.

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