Left 4 Dead 2 Vulkan Performance With Radeon Graphics On Linux

At 1080p the Left 4 Dead 2 game is rather CPU bound with modern hardware, but switching to Vulkan did provide some minor performance benefits.

When running Left 4 Dead 2 at 1440p, the Vulkan advantage was more noticeable across the different Radeon GPUs tested.

At 4K obviously the L4D2 Vulkan performance enjoyed the most uplift over the existing OpenGL rendering support on Linux.

The increased performance when using Vulkan by way of DXVK only led to slight GPU power increases. Above is the GPU power consumption at 4K with OpenGL followed by the Vulkan runs with just some relatively slight increases in the power draw.

See more Left 4 Dead 2 benchmarks via the L4D2 test on OpenBenchmarking.org.