AMD Radeon Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Performance: 2020 vs. 2021

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 7 January 2022 at 09:00 AM EST. Page 5 of 6. 19 Comments.
AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks
AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks

Strange Brigade runs on Linux via Steam Play but has a native Vulkan renderer rather than needing to go through DXVK. Here too were performance improvements to enjoy over the course of 2021 on the AMD Linux graphics driver stack.

AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks
AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks

Total War: Three Kingdoms as a Linux native Vulkan-powered game port by Feral also enjoyed better performance on the latest open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack.

AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks
AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks

The Radeon RX 6800 XT saw improved performance with the demanding Unigine Heaven OpenGL benchmark.

AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks
AMD Radeon 2021 End Of Year Linux Benchmarks

The RDNA2 graphics were also enjoying sizable improvements with the Unigine Superposition benchmark.


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