cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36739454

Quick background. My primary gaming is done on a Promox host running Wolf in a LXC. I use this combined with Moonlight to stream my games to various screens around the house. For on the go and couch gaming I use a Lenovo Legion Go running SteamOS. I also own a MacBook Pro.

I decided to see how well each of them perform for gaming, because why not? I used Borderlands 3 as my benchmark since it was the only game I own that runs without issue on all three and has a built in tool.

All tests were done on High settings with Vsync disabled. The DX12 tests did have FSR2 enabled and set to Balanced. Prices are in USD. Now for the contenders…

WOLF

  • Proxmox host is an i7 12700KF, 64GB DDR4 3600Mhz RAM, and a Radeon 7900 GRE running Proxmox 9.0.10
  • The LXC Container for Wolf is running Ubuntu 25.04 and has 12 Cores with 16GB RAM with the 7900GRE Bind mounted to it.
  • I can find a pretty comparable machine on Amazon for $1,900 and estimate I spent about $1,500 on it.

Lenovo Legion Go (1st Gen)

  • The Legion Go has an AMD z1e with 16GB of DDR5 RAM. It is running SteamOS 3.7.15.
  • All benchmarks were performed in Performance mode connected to a 100W USB C PD charger.
  • Retail on this is $749. I picked up mine open box for $450.

MacBook Pro M3

  • This model has the higher end M3 Pro with 12 CPU cores and 18 GPU Cores. 18GB of RAM and 1TB of Storage.
  • All benchmarks were performed connected to a 100W USB C PD Charger and using CrossOver v25.1.1.
  • Retail on this is $2399 but I picked it up for $1499.

Below are the raw numbers. Comments, questions, suggestions, WTF am I doing?

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    25 days ago

    Thanks for mentioning Wolf. I’m pretty happy with Sunshine but I do have those occasions where it can’t stream because my monitor is turned off (upstairs) when I’m downstairs.

  • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    Wait, so Borderlands 3 runs on the MBP using DirectX…?

    Edit: nevermind, I missed the comment about using Crossover

  • wabasso@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    25 days ago

    I love this future of gaming by streaming, but do you actually get good keyboard/mouse response over wifi? Or is the caveat it’s all wired?

    • jakepi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      25 days ago

      The only place I have a keyboard and mouse is wired. All my wireless devices have a controller.

      The latency on wired is about 2ms vs 4-5ms wireless, which is pretty good. I do have WiFi 6 everywhere so YMMV. 4-5ms is probably just fine for keyboard and mouse, as long as you’re not a competitive CSGO player or something.

      • wabasso@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        25 days ago

        I didn’t even know wifi 6 was a thing so I think I’m just behind on hardware :|