RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 6 June 2023 at 12:20 PM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 53 Comments.
Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultra. RX 7900 XTX: RadeonSI was the fastest.
Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultimate. RX 7900 XTX: RadeonSI was the fastest.

Xonotic was running well on Zink relative to RadeonSI with these RDNA3 GPUs but still there is room for squeezing more performance out of this Mesa code.

GLmark2 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080. RX 7900 XTX: RadeonSI was the fastest.
GLmark2 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 2560 x 1440. RX 7900 XTX: RadeonSI was the fastest.
GLmark2 benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RX 7900 XTX: RadeonSI was the fastest.

It looks like Mike Blumenkrantz has some work to do with tuning Zink for glmark2.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, RadeonSI vs. Zink OpenGL Benchmarks 2023. RX 7900 XTX: RadeonSI was the fastest.

Here's where the geometric mean stands at the moment for Zink on these Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards while using the RADV Vulkan driver. But no doubt this positioning is likely to improve once Blumenkrantz reads this article. Overall Zink continues to show that it's increasingly capable of serving as an alternative to hardware-specific OpenGL drivers.

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