Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Gets ~30% Performance Boost, Now Faster Than OpenGL

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Gets ~30% Performance Boost, Now Faster Than OpenGL

With our past Intel Vulkan benchmarks the Vulkan driver was slower than the mature OpenGL driver but this is about to change with an important patch-set published today: a big performance boost is in store...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Vulkan-Relocations-Boost

[humbug]

Good job Jason!

[edoantonioco]

When are we going to hear something related to finish vulkan on haswell?

But this is great news, is a shame than windows users doesnt have a vulkan driver meant for the public (but somehow they have a Dx12 driver)

[mastercoms]

When are we going to hear something related to finish vulkan on haswell?

But this is great news, is a shame than windows users doesnt have a vulkan driver meant for the public (but somehow they have a Dx12 driver)

I have been able to launch vkcube and Dota 2 Vulkan without problems on Intel Haswell graphics for a while now.

[edoantonioco]

I have been able to launch vkcube and Dota 2 Vulkan without problems on Intel Haswell graphics for a while now.

I can launch The talos principle using vulkan on the haswell card, but it lacks a lot of things compared to the opengl version, it looks ugly. No idea about Dota 2, but when it comes to vkcube and vkquake, neither of those works

[suberimakuri]

Dota2 on haswell fair bit slower on vulkan than opengl for me. Last test maybe 3 weeks ago, but I played it vulkan for a month. No issues.
Using padoka ppa on debian sid.
I'll test again after this patch lands.

[suberimakuri]

And great to see patch! Well done!

[shmerl]

Can this method be used in radv?

[MrCooper]

Can this method be used in radv?

radv isn't affected by this problem, with GPUVM the kernel driver never needs to modify GPU command streams for relocations (or any other reason).

[microcode]

Can this method be used in radv?

This seems to be specific to the i965 driver, at least to my ears.