Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available

Taking place last month in the most wonderful city of Munich, The Khronos Group hosted Vulkanised 2023 as their Vulkan Developers' Conference and Meetup. The slides and videos from the event are now available, including talks on Valve's RADV effort and more...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkanised-2023

[Danny3]

Cool!
I hope to see one day, that besides games, desktop environments, web browsers, media centers, video players will get Vulkan support too.

[xxmitsu]

Always a pleasure watching one of the Timur's presentations.

Very informative, thank you!

[Linuxxx]

Cool!
I hope to see one day, that besides games, desktop environments, web browsers, media centers, video players will get Vulkan support too.

Well, the video-player "mpv" already supports a Vulkan output for years now...

[castlefox]

Well, the video-player "mpv" already supports a Vulkan output for years now...

I had no idea something like that was possible. So cool

[Linuxxx]

For anyone interested, Digital Foundry did a comparison between the Steam Deck & the AyaNeo 2 handheld which features a superior AMD Ryzen 6800U APU, but comes with Windows 11 pre-installed.

And remarkably enough, at the same 15 Watts power-limit, the Steam Deck was still really competitive, managing to even beat the faster APU with both Control (DX12) & Doom: Eternal (Vulkan).

Interestingly, this was attributed to Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver, so a huge shout-out & congratulations to all the open-source developers:

[Video starts @ the benchmarks point]

BTW, performance & smoothness can be further tuned by the following script, which should even work on conventional Linux distributions, too:

https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities

Michael

Maybe something to benchmark for...

[piotrj3]

For anyone interested, Digital Foundry did a comparison between the Steam Deck & the AyaNeo 2 handheld which features a superior AMD Ryzen 6800U APU, but comes with Windows 11 pre-installed.

And remarkably enough, at the same 15 Watts power-limit, the Steam Deck was still really competitive, managing to even beat the faster APU with both Control (DX12) & Doom: Eternal (Vulkan).

Interestingly, this was attributed to Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver, so a huge shout-out & congratulations to all the open-source developers:

[Video starts @ the benchmarks point]

BTW, performance & smoothness can be further tuned by the following script, which should even work on conventional Linux distributions, too:

https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities

Michael

Maybe something to benchmark for...

Steam deck uses 7nm process node and 6800U uses 6nm (that in reality is 7nm slighty optimized). At same power there is relativly small diffrence in power efficiency between those 2 and this is why on same wattage they are pretty much on par. Add that sSteamDeck is heavly customized and optimized platform by Valve all the way to source code, system etc... and yea results explain itself.

6800U is slighty more impressive from perspective of CPU but games aren't blocked by CPU performance here.