Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 11 August 2023 at 03:48 PM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 63 Comments.
yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: On, MSAA: On, Resolution: 1920 x 1080. RTX 3070 Ti: NVIDIA 535 was the fastest.

The open-source YQuake2 game with its Vulkan renderer was running fine atop the NVK driver... But at not even 30 frames per second at 1080p for this Quake 2 open-source game.

yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: Off, MSAA: On, Resolution: 1920 x 1080. RTX 3070 Ti: NVIDIA 535 was the fastest.
yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: On, MSAA: Off, Resolution: 1920 x 1080. RTX 3070 Ti: NVIDIA 535 was the fastest.

Again though, at least the game was running -- along with a few other games attempted -- and it's a nice start for NVK. The low performance is not at all surprising given the long-standing issues around power management / re-clocking. These Vulkan results aren't very different from the current Nouveau NVC0 OpenGL performance on the GeForce GTX 900 series and newer.

yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: On, MSAA: Off, Resolution: 2560 x 1440. RTX 3070 Ti: NVIDIA 535 was the fastest.

There isn't much to get excited about benchmarking until the GSP support is ready for the Nouveau kernel driver.


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