AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Pro/Open vs. Upstream Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Radeon Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 23 August 2018 at 03:24 PM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 13 Comments.
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking

In the Vulkan-based Thrones of Britannia, the performance was very close in the four tested configurations. The PRO driver lost with the RX 580 but did deliver better frame-rates with the RX Vega 64.

AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking

At 1080p with ultra quality settings, the driver performance remained close.

AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking
AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking

4K with low quality settings is still playable on the RX Vega 64.

AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking

X-Plane 11 was running the fastest with the Mesa 18.3 + Linux 4.18 configuration.

AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking

The Unigine Superposition performance was very close between the drivers tested.

AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Benchmarking

Lastly with Unigine Heaven, the PRO OpenGL driver still maintained a lead over the RadeonSI options with the demanding Unigine Heaven benchmark.

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