The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018

Thrones of Britannia performance has improved as well.

For many of the Vulkan Linux games, the RADV performance on the Radeon RX Vega 64 is up by 10%+ this year and in some select cases closer to 20~30% faster with a lot of GFX9 driver tuning still having gone on this year. Keep in mind too that all of these benchmarks were done while using the Linux 4.20 kernel. If using an older kernel with each Mesa release, the performance difference is even more dramatic. For example, the current Linux 4.20 kernel release alone brought a nice performance improvement helping the Radeon Vulkan Linux gaming performance. Similar RadeonSI OpenGL benchmarks are coming up soon on Phoronix; if you like my daily Linux hardware benchmarking consider joining Phoronix Premium to help support these continued tests into 2019.