The Performance Advancements Of The Radeon Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Over 2019

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 22 December 2019 at 06:40 PM EST. Page 6 of 10. 9 Comments.

Next is the Vulkan gaming performance with the Ubuntu 18.10 RADV driver compared to the latest RADV code of Mesa 20.0-devel + Linux 5.5 and the secondary run when enabling the ACO back-end.

OpenGL 2018 vs. 2019 RadeonSI Linux AMD

Even though Dota 2 has been around for years even with its Vulkan support, the RADV driver in 2019 saw performance improvements -- especially so when enabling ACO.

OpenGL 2018 vs. 2019 RadeonSI Linux AMD
OpenGL 2018 vs. 2019 RadeonSI Linux AMD

Dawn of War 3 with Vulkan was seeing better performance on Polaris while there was a small hit to the Vega numbers.

OpenGL 2018 vs. 2019 RadeonSI Linux AMD
OpenGL 2018 vs. 2019 RadeonSI Linux AMD

The F1 2017 racing game was running nicely on the newest open-source driver code and also benefited from having ACO enabled.


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