RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Drivers Continue Stiff Performance Battle

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 18 April 2018 at 09:30 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 46 Comments.
AMDVLK RADV Vulkan Radeon Comparison

Running Dota 2 at 1080p saw the RADV driver slightly faster while there was high variance out of the AMDVLK runs.

AMDVLK RADV Vulkan Radeon Comparison

But when pushing Dota 2 to 4K, the RX 580 performance was the same on both drivers while the RX Vega 64 was faster using the official AMDVLK driver in its current Git state.

AMDVLK RADV Vulkan Radeon Comparison

Dawn of War 3 with low quality settings at 1080p is largely CPU bound and here we see the RADV driver delivering over 10% better performance than AMDVLK

AMDVLK RADV Vulkan Radeon Comparison

While at 4K with low quality settings, the AMDVLK driver was slightly faster than RADV in Mesa 18.1-dev.

AMDVLK RADV Vulkan Radeon Comparison

Dropping back to 1080p and running with high quality settings, RADV was faster than AMDVLK.

AMDVLK RADV Vulkan Radeon Comparison

Or with high quality settings at 4K, the AMDVLK and RADV race again tightens up.


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