Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 17 November 2019 at 10:45 AM EST. Page 3 of 3. 10 Comments.
Zink OpenGL on Vulkan vs. RadeonSI
Zink OpenGL on Vulkan vs. RadeonSI
Zink OpenGL on Vulkan vs. RadeonSI
Zink OpenGL on Vulkan vs. RadeonSI

As you can see, while Zink does allow for an OpenGL 2.1 implementation over Vulkan, for the most part it's still very slow but at least would be faster than the likes of LLVMpipe for running OpenGL on CPU cores. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to watch Zink mature in mainline Mesa over 2020.

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