Serious Sam 3 - BFE: OpenGL vs. Vulkan With Fusion 2017 Update

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 25 June 2017 at 05:11 PM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 15 Comments.

OpenGL then Vulkan CPU utilization:

Serious Sam 3 BFE Fusion 2017
Serious Sam 3 BFE Fusion 2017

Not only was the Vulkan performance generally faster than OpenGL for NVIDIA and generally with RADV too, but the CPU usage was lower when using the Vulkan renderer, similar to our other OpenGL vs. Vulkan Linux game tests. The average CPU usage tended to be similar, but the peak CPU usage was most often lower with Vulkan.

Overall, Serious Sam 3: BFE with Vulkan appears to be yet another quality game update from the folks at Croteam. If you enjoy all our Linux hardware benchmarks, show your support by going premium (https://www.phoronix.com/phoronix-premium).

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