Blender 3.4 HIP Performance With Radeon RX 7900 Series + RDNA3 OpenCL Compute Benchmarks

The Radeon RX 7900 series performance is a big bump at least over the Radeon RX 6800 series (unfortunately lacking any RX 6900 series review sample for comparison) while hopefully in 2023 we see the HIP ray-tracing support in good shape and further maturing to Blender Cycles' HIP back-end.

Trying to render the Barcelona scene with the RX 7900 XTX/XT graphics cards had failed but worked fine on the Vega and RDNA 1/2 graphics cards.

So for those curious about the Blender 3.4 HIP performance with the new Radeon RX 7900 series, it's working and delivering much better performance over older generations of AMD Radeon graphics cards. However, the RX 7900 XT/XTX tended to only compete with the GeForce RTX 3080 / 3080 Ti on the CUDA back-end. Unfortunately I have no GeForce RTX 40 series access yet while the OptiX back-end for now is easily delivering the best GPU rendering performance.

Let's move on to look at some OpenCL benchmarks off the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver.