One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS

A patch merged this weekend for Mesa 24.0-devel is helping the performance of the open-source NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs but the performance remains well short still of the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-NAK-Loop-Unrolling

[oibaf]

"This is the perf MR you've all been waiting for.": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...requests/26615

[oibaf]

Anyway, the patch was posted by "M Henning", which in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...5#note_2201504 says: "This is without GSP, so not too surprising.".

[scottishduck]

AMD driver, even with first party help, took a while. The NVK journey will be a lot of small fixes like this eventually adding up to a first-class experience.

[RealNC]

In Europe (PAL region) we were playing Ocarina of Time on N64 with 17FPS, and it was great.

https://i.imgur.com/CB8fAax.png

[ridge]

ludicrous_speed.jpg
Ludicrous frames. Go!

[Eirikr1848]

Has anyone been doing some comprehensive phoronix benchmark Vulkan performance tests to spot areas to focus on for improvement?

[Teggs]

'The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.'

Or as a practical example, I would ask someone whether they could reach a ledge 20 feet off the ground. After they said no, I would bring out a ladder and ask again.

[Paradigm Shifter]

'The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.'

Or as a practical example, I would ask someone whether they could reach a ledge 20 feet off the ground. After they said no, I would bring out a ladder and ask again.

*looks at ten foot ladder*

Still no.

[Anux]

AMD driver, even with first party help, took a while. The NVK journey will be a lot of small fixes like this eventually adding up to a first-class experience.

But the AMD driver wasn't actively hindered with locked firmware and other methods. It will be more like nouveau, if I have to guess.