RADV Vulkan Driver Ends The Year On A High Note With A Performance Boost

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 29 December 2017 at 06:32 PM EST. Page 3 of 3. 14 Comments.
Vulkan RADV DCC
Vulkan RADV DCC
Vulkan RADV DCC

The Max Max performance was also up by a few frames per second too. The R9 Fury doesn't appear to benefit from this DCC work as much as RX Vega 64 or the RX 580. Tests on other graphics cards are forthcoming.

Vulkan RADV DCC

With Serious Sam 3 BFE its performance is up by about 8% while the RX Vega 64 was up by almost 13%.

Vulkan RADV DCC

The synthetic VkMark benchmark is also seeing slightly higher performance out of today's Mesa 17.4-dev Git code.

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