Vulkan Continues To Show Its Gaming Strength On Low-End Hardware

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 26 January 2018 at 09:09 AM EST. Page 3 of 6. 30 Comments.
Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux
Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux
Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux
Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux

When running Mad Max with 1080p high quality settings, the Ryzen 3 system with these lower-end graphics cards had a difficult time keeping up with a 60 FPS average. Similar to the results at low quality settings, the RADV Vulkan performance on the RX 560 was generally just shy of the RadeonSI OpenGL performance while for all the scenes the NVIDIA Vulkan performance was much better than OpenGL.

Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux

Even with the higher quality settings, the CPU usage on both systems remained much lower when using the Vulkan renderer/driver than with OpenGL.


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