Vulkan RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 Testing AMD Radeon Vulkan Linux testing by Michael Larabel for a future article. Mesa: RX 480: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170124, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.2.99, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa: R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170124, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-59-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.2.99, OpenGL: 4.5.13468, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-59-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5.13468, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Dota 2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 100.58 |========================================= Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 105.63 |=========================================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 72.23 |============================= AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 74.42 |============================== Dota 2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 97.57 |======================================= Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 87.12 |=================================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 103.57 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 108.13 |=========================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 105.93 |========================================== Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 107.60 |=========================================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 73.07 |============================= AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 74.07 |============================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 75.18 |============================== Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 80.58 |================================= AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 103.53 |========================================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 106.23 |=========================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 95.72 |=========================================== Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 98.62 |============================================ AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 68.63 |=============================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 69.03 |=============================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 66.47 |============================ Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 61.72 |========================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 101.57 |========================================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 103.07 |=========================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 48.48 |=============================== Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 69.70 |============================================ AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 50.30 |================================ AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 58.83 |===================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 23.05 |============== Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 37.95 |======================= AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 57.70 |=================================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 71.60 |============================================ The Talos Principle Renderer: OpenGL - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 21.57 |========================= Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 37.28 |============================================ AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 31.60 |===================================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 37.03 |============================================ The Talos Principle Renderer: Vulkan - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa: RX 480 .............. 25.57 |======================= Mesa: R9 Fury ............. 33.13 |============================= AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: RX 480 .. 34.63 |=============================== AMDGPU-PRO 16.60: R9 Fury . 49.50 |============================================