The Radeon RX Vega Performance With AMDGPU DRM-Next 4.21 vs. NVIDIA Linux Gaming

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 2 December 2018 at 12:37 PM EST. Page 3 of 5. 51 Comments.
NVIDIA vs. Radeon RX Vega 64 DRM-Next Linux 4.21
NVIDIA vs. Radeon RX Vega 64 DRM-Next Linux 4.21

F1 2018 was tested via Steam Play with DXVK and was just fast enough now thanks to Linux 4.20+ that the performance could match the GTX 1080 when at 4K low quality settings.

NVIDIA vs. Radeon RX Vega 64 DRM-Next Linux 4.21
NVIDIA vs. Radeon RX Vega 64 DRM-Next Linux 4.21
NVIDIA vs. Radeon RX Vega 64 DRM-Next Linux 4.21
NVIDIA vs. Radeon RX Vega 64 DRM-Next Linux 4.21

With high quality settings and even ultra high quality, the performance boost out of the vRAM improvements with Linux 4.20+ was enough to put the Vega performance in line with the GTX 1070 Ti.

NVIDIA vs. Radeon RX Vega 64 DRM-Next Linux 4.21

With the aging Metro Last Light Redux OpenGL port, the RX Vega 64 on RadeonSI was still coming in shy of the GeForce GTX 1070.


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