The Current RADV+ACO Mesa Driver Performance For February 2020

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 24 February 2020 at 03:52 PM EST. Page 4 of 4. 9 Comments.
Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Mesa 20 Tests Radeon
Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Mesa 20 Tests Radeon

Thrones of Britannia was seeing little movement on the tested GPU/driver configurations with the exception of the Radeon RX 590 Polaris graphics card. The Polaris performance was helped nicely by enabling ACO.

Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Mesa 20 Tests Radeon
Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Mesa 20 Tests Radeon

Warhammer II is another game helped by the RADV ACO back-end.

Long story short, for the tested Navi / Vega / Polaris AMD Radeon graphics cards with the various Linux games tested, there was little movement in the performance from Mesa 19.2 as shipped by Ubuntu 19.10 in going to Mesa Git master. But when enabling the RADV ACO back-end with the RADV_PERFTEST=aco parameter is where there were some more significant gains to find.

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