20-Way NVIDIA/AMD Vulkan Linux Gaming Performance Comparison

[phoronix]

Phoronix: 20-Way NVIDIA/AMD Vulkan Linux Gaming Performance Comparison

For those curious about the current performance state for the recent wave of Vulkan-powered Linux games, which so far are primarily Linux game ports from Feral Interactive, aside from Valve's Dota 2 and Croteam's games, here are some fresh benchmarks using twenty different graphics cards on the latest drivers.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=26640

[tildearrow]

Typos:

the GTX 1060 . RX 580 and better

older/loewer-end graphics cards.

The GTX 1070 beating out the GTX 1070

The GTX 1070 is beating itself!

[humbug]

Proprietary Radeon Software driver for AMD would have performed better.

[AlB80]

Radeon R7 260X: radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1

Should be "cik_support". Are that tests ok?

Proprietary Radeon Software driver for AMD would have performed better.

The kernel driver is the same - AMDGPU.
OpenGL: Catalyst (fglrx) is slower than radeonsi.
Vulkan: AMDVLK is faster than RADV. And AMDVLK is contributed to open source.

[SvenK]

Proprietary Radeon Software driver for AMD would have performed better.

On Vega you could be right, but on the other AMD cards the proprietary driver would be worse.

[microcode]

The Vega 64 minimum framerates seem way ahead of everything else (especially on Mad Max), I'd love to see the 0.1% low (a.k.a. 99.9th percentile frame time) numbers for a comparison like this.

[ElectricPrism]

I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around GTX 1080 Ti pushing 151.36 FPS on DOTA @ 1080p.

And then pushing 147.83 FPS on DOTA @ 4k.

That's 400% as many pixels, what dirty tricks or meaning does this have.

[Tuxee]

I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around GTX 1080 Ti pushing 151.36 FPS on DOTA @ 1080p.

And then pushing 147.83 FPS on DOTA @ 4k.

That's 400% as many pixels, what dirty tricks or meaning does this have.

That the graphics card is no longer the limiting element.

[haagch]

The kernel driver is the same - AMDGPU.
OpenGL: Catalyst (fglrx) is slower than radeonsi.
Vulkan: AMDVLK is faster than RADV. And AMDVLK is contributed to open source.

The vulkan driver from amdgpu-pro is supposedly largely the same as amdvlk but it uses a proprietary shader compiler that IIRC has provided a decent performance advantage in some past benchmarks (but in some it also produced worse results).

[smitty3268]

Vulkan: AMDVLK is faster than RADV. And AMDVLK is contributed to open source.

That's false, at least as of the last tests Michael posted.

AMDVLK < RADV < AMDVLK PRO (or whatever you call the proprietary version)