The Polaris/Vega Performance At The End Of Mesa 18.3 Feature Development

Rise of the Tomb Raider, released earlier this year for Linux and powered by Vulkan, shows the RADV performance coming in line with the latest NVIDIA stable driver build.

Even with the more demanding graphics settings, the Vega and Polaris cards were still performing where they should be on Linux when using this latest graphics stack.

The Talos Principle with Vulkan was coming up a bit slow on RADV under Mesa 18.3.

X-Plane 11 with OpenGL still has some significant performance bottlenecks but hopefully its in-development Vulkan renderer will improve the situation.

For the most part, the Mesa 18.3 gaming performance for Radeon GPUs with the RadeonSI/RADV drivers are coming in line with expectations and are still giving the NVIDIA Linux driver stack healthy competition while being open-source; hopefully this will still be the case next year with Navi and it will be able to better compete with the higher-end NVIDIA GPUs.