RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Linux Driver Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 8 May 2018 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 5 of 9. 21 Comments.
Vulkan AMD Linux Driver Tests

Dota 2 at 1080p is easily CPU bound and in this situation the three Vulkan drivers ran about the same speed.

Vulkan AMD Linux Driver Tests

There wasn't much of a CPU usage difference between these drivers.

Vulkan AMD Linux Driver Tests

While at 4K, the RX 580 performance was similar on the three drivers while the RX Vega 64 on RADV Mesa 18.2-dev was the slowest while the PRO and AMDVLK drivers were about the same speed.

Vulkan AMD Linux Driver Tests

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