RADV vs. NVIDIA Vulkan/OpenGL Performance For Serious Sam 2017

The RADV Vulkan numbers looked good yesterday when seeing them by themselves without the NVIDIA GPU metrics. The performance is high due to Serious Sam HD: TFE originally being released in 2009 and while the engine upgrades are significant, the art assets/visuals are rather old and the system requirements not too high. RADV with the R9 Fury was coming up short of the GTX 970 and other higher-end NVIDIA GPUs.

Even moving to higher quality visuals, the Radeon RX 480 and R9 Fury were only beating out the GeForce GTX 1050 series. But at least with the high frame-rates, all of the test cards were easily playable on any of the tested GPUs for 1080p with high quality settings.

With ultra quality settings at 1080p and rendering using Vulkan, even the GeForce GTX 1050 was running easily above 60 FPS.