Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"

PorteuX Linux developers benchmarked Wayland versus X11 across various compositors and window managers on an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS system with Radeon 780M graphics. They concluded Wayland is intrinsically faster than X11 but not necessarily more power efficient. KDE Plasma on Wayland performed best, with Labwc and COSMIC close behind, while their custom xfwm4-gl fork (an OpenGL-compositing fork of Xfce's xfwm4) topped compositing performance. LXDE with Openbox on X11 and xfwm4-gl showed better power efficiency and lower CPU utilization than Wayland alternatives. The benchmarking tool used, wmbench, and the PorteuX distribution and xfwm4-gl fork are available on GitHub.

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