The Current Radeon RX Vega 64 / Radeon VII Linux OpenCL Performance Against NVIDIA

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 11 June 2019 at 05:59 AM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 21 Comments.
ROCm OpenCL Radeon Linux GPU Compute vs. NVIDIA
ROCm OpenCL Radeon Linux GPU Compute vs. NVIDIA

The Radeon VII is quite a competent OpenCL/ROCm performer against the current-generation NVIDIA wares on Linux.

ROCm OpenCL Radeon Linux GPU Compute vs. NVIDIA

Well, except like in integer performance where it comes up well short of the competition.

ROCm OpenCL Radeon Linux GPU Compute vs. NVIDIA

The ROCm stack does appear to still have higher latency compared to NVIDIA's OpenCL Linux driver.

ROCm OpenCL Radeon Linux GPU Compute vs. NVIDIA

In the Leela Chess Zero chess benchmark with OpenCL back-end, the Radeon VII was performing around the GeForce GTX 1080 / RTX 2070 performance level.

ROCm OpenCL Radeon Linux GPU Compute vs. NVIDIA

LuxMark has long favored AMD GPUs/drivers, but for what it's worth the Radeon VII did beat out the TITAN RTX in the Luxball scene.

ROCm OpenCL Radeon Linux GPU Compute vs. NVIDIA

Stay tuned for some fresh tests with ROCm 2.5 as soon as I'm back in the office.

If you enjoyed this article consider joining Phoronix Premium to view this site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits. PayPal or Stripe tips are also graciously accepted. Thanks for your support.


Related Articles
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source
Trying Out & Benchmarking The New Experimental Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver
Intel's Open-Source Compute Runtime Performing Increasingly Well Against NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver
Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10
Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.