SteamOS Outperforms Windows 11 in Game Performance Tests
Ars Technica’s recent testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S reveals that SteamOS 3.7 delivers higher frame rates for most recent games compared to Windows 11. While Windows outperformed in Borderlands 3, four other games showed SteamOS with significantly better performance, particularly in titles like Returnal. This marks a notable shift from past results where SteamOS lagged behind Windows in performance.
As you can see in the included charts, SteamOS showed noticeable frame rate improvements in four of the five games tested. Only Borderlands 3 showed comparable performance across both operating systems, with Windows eking out ever-so-slightly higher frame rates in that game’s benchmarks. For the other four tested games, the stock Lenovo Windows drivers were sometimes significantly worse than those included with SteamOS. When playing Returnal at