Open-Source Win: RADV Trades Blows With AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan In F1 2017

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open-Source Win: RADV Trades Blows With AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan In F1 2017

Here are some of the most exciting RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan performance benchmarks we have seen to date... The AMDGPU-PRO official AMD Vulkan Linux driver does run with Feral's latest Linux game port, F1 2017, but the community-driven, open-source RADV Vulkan driver often outperforms it!

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=25465

[humbug]

Hope the next amdgpu pro release brings a Vulkan performance uplift.

[marek]

That's incredible considering that RADV was originally started as a joke as Dave said if I remember correctly.

[boxie]

That's incredible considering that RADV was originally started as a joke as Dave said if I remember correctly.

it is quite impressive that in ~1 year they brought up a damn good driver built upon all the open source AMD goodness

it gives me warm fuzzies just looking in from the outside!

[Karbowiak]

The same game, at same quality settings (Ultra High) at 1080p, on DX11, Windows 10, gets about 115 FPS on a Vega 56
On Linux, using the open source RADV drivers, with a DX11->Vulkan ported game, the same card gets 98 FPS..

I wonder how much of that actually comes down to either RADV not being fully baked yet in all areas, or because the game has a DX11->Vulkan shim inbetween.. Either way, damn - i'm impressed!

[Shevchen]

I wonder how much of that actually comes down to either RADV not being fully baked yet in all areas, or because the game has a DX11->Vulkan shim inbetween.. Either way, damn - i'm impressed!

Guess in the wind: RADV may still have something like 30% performance to go, the porting-losses also are ~20% on average. Games on Linux w/o porting losses should already be equally fast compared to Windows and if RADV is matured, we should see a consistent pattern of Linux being faster than windows.

[valici]

That's incredible considering that RADV was originally started as a joke as Dave said if I remember correctly.

Let's not forget that it uses amdgpu kernel developed and maintained by AMD and also reuses part of RadeonSI also by AMD. So I would say it's built by Dave and Bas on top of AMD's work.

Also it would be nice to have both RADV and AMD Vulkan implementation.

[humbug]

Also it would be nice to have both RADV and AMD Vulkan implementation.

It will be some fun healthy competition between them once AMD open sources it.

[vickop]

Has anyone had any problems? My system freezes after a few seconds of starting to play the game. I'm using Mesa 17.2.3 with openSUSE Tumbleweed, running RX480 and Ryzen 5 1600. I have tried to update the bios to the latest version and force the kernel update 4.14rc7, but it still fails.

I think I have identified the problem. It seems to happen when I activate the "smoke shadows" option.

Any help?

[smitty3268]

Let's not forget that it uses amdgpu kernel developed and maintained by AMD and also reuses part of RadeonSI also by AMD. So I would say it's built by Dave and Bas on top of AMD's work.

I would guess Marek hasn't forgotten that.