NVIDIA 387.12 Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance Across Multiple CPUs

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 11 October 2017 at 10:34 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 26 Comments.
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Core i3/i5/i7 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Ubuntu Linux Comparison

Serious Sam 3 BFE with low quality settings sees a huge boost in performance with Vulkan instead of OpenGL. The Core i3 8100 saw a 65% increase in frame-rate using the 387.12 beta driver with Vulkan.

Vulkan vs. OpenGL Core i3/i5/i7 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Ubuntu Linux Comparison

But if pushing Serious Sam 3 BFE hard with the ultra image quality settings, the gains are much less. Here the Vulkan performance benefit was only about 15% or less.

Vulkan vs. OpenGL Core i3/i5/i7 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Ubuntu Linux Comparison
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Core i3/i5/i7 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Ubuntu Linux Comparison

Mad Max was seeing ~15% boosts in performance when using the Vulkan renderer with the new 387.12 driver on the GTX 1060.


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