Initial Radeon vs. GeForce Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 20 April 2021 at 02:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 41 Comments.

Lastly is a look at the Ray Tracing In Vulkan performance at 4K.

Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10

Like the 1440p results, when running Ray-Tracing In Vulkan at 4K the same two scenes continued performing very well for the tested RDNA2 graphics cards while in the three other benchmark scenes the performance was very disappointing with the RX 6800 XT competing there around the RTX 3060 series or even less.

Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Radeon Software 21.10

On a performance-per-Watt basis, in the scenes where the Radeon RX 6000 series hardware was properly competitive it showed leading power efficiency while in the scenes with the abnormally low performance obviously it didn't look as good as the NVIDIA competition for power efficiency.


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