VkMark Makes It Easy To Run Small Vulkan Test Cases

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VkMark Makes It Easy To Run Small Vulkan Test Cases

One of the Vulkan open-source projects I have been tracking the past few months has been VkMark and it's now at a stage where it's becoming sufficiently useful for some small Vulkan test-cases / micro-benchmarks...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VkMark-Progressing

[haagch]

At this point all the benchmarks run at like 10000 fps, so I'd say they mostly benchmark overhead so far.

The last time I had the hybrid driver installed, radv scored much higher than amdgpu-pro vulkan, so that was awesome.
Still, I believe in real world applications radv is often still slower than amdgpu-pro vulkan.

RX 480, Ryzen 1600X

WARNING: radv is not a conformant vulkan implementation, testing use only.
=======================================================
    vkmark 2017.07
=======================================================
    Vendor ID:      0x1002
    Device ID:      0x67DF
    Device Name:    AMD RADV POLARIS10
    Driver Version: 71311459
=======================================================
[vertex] device-local=true: FPS: 13707 FrameTime: 0.073 ms
[vertex] device-local=false: FPS: 9424 FrameTime: 0.106 ms
[texture] anisotropy=0: FPS: 13450 FrameTime: 0.074 ms
[texture] anisotropy=16: FPS: 13445 FrameTime: 0.074 ms
[shading] shading=gouraud: FPS: 13119 FrameTime: 0.076 ms
[shading] shading=blinn-phong-inf: FPS: 13149 FrameTime: 0.076 ms
[shading] shading=phong: FPS: 13037 FrameTime: 0.077 ms
[shading] shading=cel: FPS: 13065 FrameTime: 0.077 ms
[effect2d] kernel=edge: FPS: 13903 FrameTime: 0.072 ms
[effect2d] kernel=blur: FPS: 10633 FrameTime: 0.094 ms
[desktop] <default>: FPS: 10840 FrameTime: 0.092 ms
[cube] <default>: FPS: 14584 FrameTime: 0.069 ms
[clear] <default>: FPS: 15117 FrameTime: 0.066 ms
=======================================================
                                   vkmark Score: 12882
=======================================================

[sdack]

Sasha Willems has been improving his Vulkan examples steadily over the years, and each of them is a small benchmark of its own with some minor stressful ones, too. It's now 55 programs and each samples a different use case as well as aspects of Vulkan.

https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan