Radeon RX 6600/6700/6800 XT: RADV vs. PRO Vulkan Driver Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 11 August 2021 at 02:30 PM EDT. Page 3 of 7. 22 Comments.
RDNA2 RADV vs. Radeon Software PRO
RDNA2 RADV vs. Radeon Software PRO

For F1 2020 as another Steam Play game on Linux, the performance was similar between these two AMD Radeon Vulkan drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS across the latest-generation RDNA2 GPUs.

RDNA2 RADV vs. Radeon Software PRO
RDNA2 RADV vs. Radeon Software PRO
RDNA2 RADV vs. Radeon Software PRO
RDNA2 RADV vs. Radeon Software PRO

HITMAN 2 under Steam Play also saw the best performance across these three AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards when using the latest Mesa RADV driver rather than the closed-source package driver in Radeon Software for Linux 21.30.

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