Vulkan Continues To Show Its Gaming Strength On Low-End Hardware

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 26 January 2018 at 09:09 AM EST. Page 5 of 6. 30 Comments.
Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux

Serious Sam 3: BFE with Vulkan is significantly faster on both systems than with the OpenGL renderer.

Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux

The frame-rates were substantially higher with Serious Sam 3 BFE on Vulkan while the CPU usage this time was similar to the OpenGL results.

Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux

When stressing the hardware by pushing Serious Sam 3: BFE to ultra quality settings, the NVIDIA Vulkan performance was faster than OpenGL while the RX 560 favored the more mature RadeonSI OpenGL driver rather than RADV Vulkan.

Vulkan OpenGL Ryzen 3 Ubuntu Linux

The CPU usage was slightly higher this time with Vulkan than OpenGL.


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