RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Is Still A Better Bet Than AMDVLK In February 2018

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 12 February 2018 at 03:36 PM EST. Page 4 of 6. 53 Comments.
AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018
AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018
AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018
AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018

When running Mad Max at 4K with low image quality settings, the RADV win was narrower but still siding with this Mesa-based Vulkan driver than the official Vulkan driver.

AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018
AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018
AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018
AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018

While lastly when really pushing these GPUs hard by high quality settings at 4K, the RADV vs. AMDVLK performance was very similar and in some cases siding slightly with AMDVLK.

AMDVLK vs. RADV February 2018

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