AMDGPU-PRO vs. NVIDIA On Linux With OpenGL & Vulkan

Moving on over to some initial Talos Principle numbers of the newest build...

With The Talos Principle at 4K, the R9 Fury performance was competitive with NVIDIA -- including when using the OpenGL renderer.

When making use of Vulkan on the newest Talos Principle build, the GTX 1080 performance was boosted by 50%, going from sub-60 FPS to now running at 77 FPS! The AMDGPU-PRO performance was also better with Vulkan as the R9 Fury went from 39 FPS to 52 FPS. At the low-end though, GPUs like the Radeon RX 460 didn't see any improvement from already being crushed by running games at 4K.

Overall, these latest numbers fot Dota 2 and The Talos Principle are positive and show there can be significant performance improvements from running a game with the new Khronos graphics API once its engine has been optimized to more fully jive with Vulkan's design. The AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan results at 4K were especially promising with the numbers being more competitive to NVIDIA than we have seen in older articles, especially when it comes to the NVIDIA vs. AMD OpenGL struggles of the past.

These numbers alone are very exciting but stay tuned for more including new RadeonSI/RADV numbers as well as some Windows comparison data points. To see more interesting tests like this, join Phoronix Premium -- you can do so at a big savings via this week's Thanksgiving sale.