A Closer Look At The AMDVLK vs. RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 27 December 2017 at 01:00 PM EST. Page 3 of 4. 25 Comments.
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Onto Vulkan Linux gaming, here are the Dota 2 numbers at 4K with the five different GPUs. AMDVLK/AMDGPU-PRO does very well with Vega while for other cards the RADV driver was within frames of this official AMD driver.

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The CPU utilization recordings by the Phoronix Test Suite during the automated benchmarking with Dota 2 showed that RADV did appear to yield lower CPU utilization than AMDVLK/AMDGPU-PRO.

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Meanwhile, RADV was much more competitive -- and sometimes winning -- with Mad Max on Vulkan.

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While the CPU usage for Mad Max between the three drivers didn't yield any surprising differences.


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