Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now "100%-1000% Faster" For Many Scenarios

[oleid]

Yes, this is really good news.
Maybe OpenGL will also have a uniform behavior across hardware.

Only if vulkan drivers will have uniform behaviour accross hardware.

[dragon321]

I tried benchmark and Zink was able to achieve 89% performance of native OpenGL driver. Last time I checked it was something around 60% so it's clearly improving. Really nice work.

[mdedetrich]

Only if vulkan drivers will have uniform behaviour accross hardware.

Vulkan is a lot lower level than OpenGL which by definition will make it have more uniform behavior than OpenGL, even the API is designed in such a way.

Of course it won't behave the exact same way across all hardware, but its already bounds better than OpenGL.

[wertigon]

I tried benchmark and Zink was able to achieve 89% performance of native OpenGL driver. Last time I checked it was something around 60% so it's clearly improving. Really nice work.

90% of Native drivers is actually good enough for most tasks. This is really promising, perhaps in a year or so we will see Zink be the default OpenGL solution in distros like Fedora.

[Guest]

Great! Hopefully I can replace the RadeonSI OpenGL driver with this.

It's been super buggy under Mesa 21.1, causing GPU and system crashes, several times a day. Makes the system unusable.

[coder]

90% of Native drivers is actually good enough for most tasks. This is really promising, perhaps in a year or so we will see Zink be the default OpenGL solution in distros like Fedora.

Don't underestimate corner cases. Even if there are just a few corner cases where Zink really falls down, that's enough to make it unusable for some people.

[dragon321]

90% of Native drivers is actually good enough for most tasks. This is really promising, perhaps in a year or so we will see Zink be the default OpenGL solution in distros like Fedora.

Yeah. While it seems Zink was not meant to replace existing native OpenGL implementations, it can serve this purpose in near future as well.

[Quackdoc]

Yeah. While it seems Zink was not meant to replace existing native OpenGL implementations, it can serve this purpose in near future as well.

I wont be surprised if we see raspberry pi's head this way when v3dv hits 1.1 conformance

[oiaohm]

Don't underestimate corner cases. Even if there are just a few corner cases where Zink really falls down, that's enough to make it unusable for some people.

The corner cases cut both ways. There are corner cases for old applications where current vendor opengl drivers don't work right as well. This explains the value support.

[pracedru]

Only if vulkan drivers will have uniform behaviour accross hardware.

I did write maybe. But not necessarily actually. There could be differences in Vulkan implementations that aren't affecting the Zink stuff.