Intel OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance With Mesa 18.0

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 21 January 2018 at 08:30 AM EST. Page 3 of 3. 9 Comments.

Dawn of War 3 would run on the i5-8400 albeit slowly when using Vulkan. OpenGL testing wasn't possible due to the Intel OpenGL driver not supporting bindless textures. Just pointing this out before people ask why Dawn of War 3 wasn't included in the testing.

With Serious Sam 3 BFE, the Vulkan performance did come out ahead of the OpenGL numbers.

Though the CPU usage was similar between these graphics APIs.

When pushing Serious Sam 3 BFE harder by using 1080p testing, Vulkan still came out ahead.

While lastly with The Talos Principle, the frame-rates were similar between OpenGL and Vulkan.

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