20-Way NVIDIA GeForce / AMD Radeon GPU Comparison For Rise of The Tomb Raider On Vulkan/Linux

[ElectricPrism]

RX 480 checking in. I think Im doing about 70 FPS average @ 1080p in the second level. Im surprised at how well its doing. I think im on high with bloom anf some other effects turned off like motion blur.

[Asariati]

If enough premium members request it or new premium members.

Yes please. Happy to chip in some extra $ for it

[johanb]

When looking closely you can see that the minimum FPS on the Radeon cards is slightly higher compared to respective nvidia cards with approximately the same average FPS. I would love a review from someone of stutter and/or a minimum FPS graph.

[Brisse]

Just a little heads up if there's anyone else out there with multiple AMD-cards. I have two Fury's on Debian Sid with Mesa 17.3.9. Vulkan apps, including this one seem to default to run on the secondary GPU which causes a big performance drop. By switching over to my primary GPU in the Feral launcher, I got a nice performance boost. Went from 60fps avg. to 73fps avg. in the benchmark. I wonder if this is a Mesa or RADV issue. Doesn't happen with OpenGL.

Also, I'd like to say that the game plays really smooth. The benchmark is quite heavy and I don't think it represents actual game-play very well. On Windows, my avg. FPS in the benchmark is over 90fps, but I doubt I would be able to tell the Windows and Linux version apart if I did a blind test.

[humbug]

Just a little heads up if there's anyone else out there with multiple AMD-cards. I have two Fury's on Debian Sid with Mesa 17.3.9. Vulkan apps, including this one seem to default to run on the secondary GPU which causes a big performance drop.

so vulkan multi GPU is not implemented in this game?
the windows dx12 version has multi GPU support.

[Brisse]

so vulkan multi GPU is not implemented in this game?
the windows dx12 version has multi GPU support.

Nope, doesn't seem to be implemented in Linux version.

Tried mutli-GPU on Windows, but it doesn't work well (microstuttering) so I'd rather prefer running it on a single GPU which gives me plenty of performance anyway.

DX11 S-GPU 91.97fps

DX12 S-GPU 102.99fps

DX11 M-GPU 124.50fps

DX12 M-GPU 107.44fps

Linux S-GPU 73fps

(1080p high)

[Guest]

Looking at the 1070 beating a Vega 64 just makes me sad.

[humbug]

Looking at the 1070 beating a Vega 64 just makes me sad.

Ya it doesn't happen on windows. Actually the vega56 tends to match the 1070ti.
Hopefully once RadV and amdvlk mature it will change.

Also I noticed the r9 290 performance is below expected. Hope somebody smart enough can look into it...

[Enverex]

DX11 S-GPU 91.97fps
DX12 S-GPU 102.99fps
Linux S-GPU 73fps
(1080p high)

To add to this, could you do a test using Wine-Staging 3.6 (with CSMT enabled)? Just to see how well Feral's converter works. With and without DXVK could be worth trying too, out of curiosity.

[Brisse]

Enverex Sorry, but that would take me forever. I don't have Wine installed and my internet connection is really slow.