League of Legends Windows 10 vs Windows 11 Gaming Performance

League of Legends Windows 10 vs Windows 11 FPS Performance Test Benchmark. Watch the side by side here

Microsoft's latest Operating System Windows 11 is now available for early adopters and testers. If you are curious about the performance implications of this newest Windows update and how it applies to League of Legends this in depth Performance Comparison between Windows 10 1809 and Windows 11 21H2 has you covered!

Hardware

RTX 2080 8GB
i7 9700K @ 3.6Ghz
16GB DDR4 RAM
NVMe SSD

Drivers/OS

NVIDIA 465.98
Windows 10 1809
Windows 11 21H2

League of Legends

Maxed Preset @ 1920x1080
240 FPS Framerate Limit (Recommend)
VSync Disabled
Patch 11.15

Results

Windows 10 Average FPS: 168
Windows 11 Average FPS: 171
Advantage FPS: 3+ Average
Performance Gain Percent: ~2%

Recording Settings

Recorded with an external capture device and stats tracked with Riva Tuner

H.264 veryfast preset, 2500kbps Bitrate, 1920x1080

Dota 2 OpenGL vs Vulkan performance in Linux https://downthecrop.xyz/blog/dota-2-opengl-vs-vulkan-linux/

League of Legends DirectX 9 vs DirectX 11 Performance Benchmark

League of Legends DirectX9 vs DirectX11 FPS Performance Test Benchmark. Watch the side by side here

With the release of League of Legends Patch 10.16 there is now official (beta) support for the Direct X11 Rendering backend for League of Legends (LoL). I have conducted a side by side comparison between the old rendering backend D3D9 (DirectX 9) and the new D3D11 (DirectX 11). If you want to enable DX11 in your own game you can follow the instructions provided by Riot here.

Hardware

RTX 2080 8GB
i7 9700K @ 4.6Ghz
16GB DDR4 RAM
NVMe SSD

Drivers/OS

NVIDIA 451.67
Windows 10 1909

League of Legends

Medium, Shadows Disabled
240 FPS Framerate Limit (Recommend)
VSync Disabled
Patch 10.16

Results

DX9 Average: 168.6
DX11 Average: 175.2
Performance Advantage FPS: 6.5+ DX11
Performance Gain Percent: 3.91%

Recording Settings

Note: The impact of OBS with these settings is as low as ~5FPS. When running the tests I had no additional software running other than OBS and League of Legends. In a real use case even if you don't record/stream the performance impact should be similar to having Chrome/Firefox open with a YouTube video or Discord ect.

H.265 NVENC Encoder Max Quality preset, 2300kbps Bitrate, 1280x720

Dota 2 OpenGL vs Vulkan performance in Linux https://downthecrop.xyz/blog/dota-2-opengl-vs-vulkan-linux/

League of Legends Using Wine and Vulkan D9VK Linux Performance vs Windows (Nvidia)

*League of Legends Windows 10 vs Ubuntu Linux 18.04 Performance Graph.* Watch my video here.

Hey League of Legends players that also happen to be Linux enthusiasts. Today I would like to share a video comparison I've created comparing the difference in performance between League of Legends on Windows 10 and League of Legends on Ubuntu 18.04 Linux. This comparison will provides a frame rate (FPS) graph and and a side by side comparison of performance between the two systems handling the same replay from League of Legends patch 9.24 from Late December 2019.

Hardware

RTX 2080 8GB
i7 9700K @ 4.6Ghz
16GB DDR4 RAM
NVMe SSD

Drivers

Win10 - 441.08 WHQL
Ubuntu - 430 nonfree
Wine: lutris-lol-4.20-x86_64 D9VK/Vulkan Enabled

League of Legends

Medium Settings & Shadows
240 FPS Framerate Limit (Recommend)
AA Enabled Patch 9.24B (Late Dec 2019)

Results

Windows Average: 154
Windows One Percent Low: 120
Ubuntu Average: 140
Ubuntu One Percent Low: 106

Recording Settings

Note: The impact of OBS with these settings is as low as ~5FPS. When running the tests I had no additional software running other than OBS and League. In a real use case even if you don't record/stream the performance impact should be similar to having Chrome/Firefox open with a YouTube video or Discord ect.

H.264 Encoder veryfast preset, 5000kbps Bitrate, 1280x720 (downsampled from 1080p)