Plasma Xwayland is outperforming native Wayland and native Xorg in Xonotic

I took some benchmarks of Xonotic running under Plasma Xorg, Wayland and XWayland with timedemo of 32 seconds demo of firing all weapons and surprisingly XWayland outperformance native Xorg and Wayland. I threw some Sway benchmarks too just for comparison.

To launch Xonotic for Wayland, use SDL\_VIDEODRIVER=wayland env variable and Xonotic linked against newer version of SDL

They are sorted by the highest score order

W sway
1099 frames 8.0393175 seconds 136.7031465 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 98 143 219 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 7.9379667 seconds 138.4485522 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 101 145 231 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 7.8705051 seconds 139.6352575 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 101 147 225 (32 seconds)

XW plasma
1099 frames 9.6341691 seconds 114.0731488 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 82 119 195 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 9.6714972 seconds 113.6328714 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 83 118 186 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 9.2620295 seconds 118.6565000 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 86 125 200 (32 seconds)

W plasma
1099 frames 11.0201610 seconds 99.7263109 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 76 103 161 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 10.2349702 seconds 107.3769613 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 79 112 180 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 10.3239201 seconds 106.4518117 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 80 111 178 (32 seconds)

X plasma
1099 frames 12.2948719 seconds 89.3868605 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 70 92 126 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 12.2376714 seconds 89.8046668 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 70 93 139 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 12.3729273 seconds 88.8229581 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 67 92 144 (32 seconds)

XW sway
1099 frames 18.2966133 seconds 60.0657610 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 58 60 62 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 18.2826612 seconds 60.1115991 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 60 60 62 (32 seconds)
1099 frames 18.3155127 seconds 60.0037801 fps, one-second fps min/avg/max: 60 60 60 (32 seconds)

It's not surprising that XWayland outperformance native Xorg as XWayland is part of Wayland WM itself instead of the separate entity but what is surprising is XWayland for sway is at the bottom and XWayland is outperforming the native Wayland.

System Info:-

**OS**: Arch Linux x86\_64

**Kernel**: 5.6.2-zen1-2-zen

**Resolution**: 1920x1080

**CPU**: Intel i7-8565U (8) @ 4.600GHz

i**GPU**: Intel UHD Graphics 620

d**GPU**: AMD Radeon 520 Mobile (not used for this test cause its basically useless)

**Memory**: 19882MiB

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