Radeon Vulkan "RADV" Driver Saw Many Optimizations This Week For Mesa 21.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon Vulkan "RADV" Driver Saw Many Optimizations This Week For Mesa 21.0

Prior to Mesa 21.0 being branched this week in preparations for the quarterly stable Mesa3D release, a number of open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver optimizations were merged...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Squeezing-More-RADV-For-Mesa-21

[CochainComplex]

In my opinion Mesa is the pinnacle of multicorp. open source collaboration

[ms178]

Well, at least in the only game I benchmark on Linux regularly (Company of Heroes 2 via Proton), I saw a performance regression from 71 fps (somewhen in October 2020) to 64 fps (yesterday). Each time I optimize it with my custom Xanmod-Kernel, compile Mesa-git from sources with the same aggressive compiler flags etc.

[aufkrawall]

ms178 How fast is amdvlk in comparison?

[Venemo]

Well, at least in the only game I benchmark on Linux regularly (Company of Heroes 2 via Proton), I saw a performance regression from 71 fps (somewhen in October 2020) to 64 fps (yesterday). Each time I optimize it with my custom Xanmod-Kernel, compile Mesa-git from sources with the same aggressive compiler flags etc.

Please open a bug report against upstream mesa, write down how to reproduce this and we'll see if we can help.

[cytomax55]

Yes please do this ... I play coh2 using w.e mesa comes with Manjaro and I would like not to be affected by this bug.. ty

[pal666]

In my opinion Mesa is the pinnacle of multicorp. open source collaboration

how about linux kernel?

[Dukenukemx]

Seeing a lot of Navi and newer changes. What about the rest of us?

[cytomax55]

how about linux kernel?

Yup I think linux kernel #1 and mesa is #2

[CochainComplex]

pal666 hehe yes it was almost too obvious ..so I missed it. Indeed as written by cytomax55 it should be #2