Vulkan VS Intel Core i7-7700K testing with a MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0 and Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB (1316/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11264MB (403/5508MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5.13474, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2348.3), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5.13474, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2348.3), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: Open RX 580: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: MSI AMD POLARIS10 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170604, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: Open R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170604, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Vulkan: Intel HD 630: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170604, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Static Scene - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: Yes Frame Time - ms < Lower Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 19.94 |======================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 20.86 |======================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 20.98 |========================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 20.90 |======================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 25.63 |============================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 26.93 |=============================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 21.73 |========================= Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 22.97 |=========================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 36.81 |=========================================== GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Static Scene - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: Yes FPS > Higher Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 50.16 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 47.94 |========================================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 47.67 |========================================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 47.86 |========================================= Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 39.02 |================================= Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 37.13 |================================ Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 46.03 |======================================= Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 43.54 |===================================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 27.17 |======================= GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Static Scene - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: No Frame Time - ms < Lower Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 78.92 |================================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 79.00 |================================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 78.74 |================================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 79.20 |================================= Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 95.81 |======================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 95.93 |======================================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 91.16 |====================================== Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 90.41 |====================================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 100.21 |========================================== GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Static Scene - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: No FPS > Higher Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 12.67 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 12.66 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 12.70 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 12.63 |=========================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 10.44 |=================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 10.42 |=================================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 10.97 |===================================== Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 11.06 |===================================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 9.98 |================================== GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: Yes Frame Time - ms < Lower Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 10.42 |===================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 10.35 |===================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 10.34 |===================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 10.34 |===================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 12.80 |========================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 12.59 |========================= Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 15.13 |============================== Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 15.21 |============================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 21.48 |=========================================== GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: Yes FPS > Higher Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 95.99 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 96.65 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 96.71 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 96.70 |=========================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 78.17 |=================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 79.45 |=================================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 66.09 |============================= Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 65.76 |============================= Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 46.56 |===================== GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: No Frame Time - ms < Lower Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 15.70 |=========================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 15.64 |=========================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 15.64 |=========================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 15.65 |=========================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 19.64 |================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 19.44 |================================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 24.01 |========================================== Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 24.70 |=========================================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 20.99 |===================================== GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: No FPS > Higher Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 63.68 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 63.92 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 63.94 |=========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 63.90 |=========================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 50.92 |================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 51.44 |=================================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 41.65 |============================ Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 40.56 |=========================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 47.65 |================================ GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Shadow Mapping - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: Yes Frame Time - ms < Lower Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 3.84 |=================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 3.96 |==================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 2.85 |============== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 1.02 |===== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 1.62 |======== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 1.61 |======== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 6.01 |============================== Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 6.64 |================================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 8.70 |============================================ GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Shadow Mapping - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: Yes FPS > Higher Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 279.77 |============ Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 252.31 |=========== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 367.02 |================ Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 979.40 |========================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 618.24 |=========================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 622.47 |=========================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 170.91 |======= Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 154.34 |======= Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 114.90 |===== GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Shadow Mapping - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: No Frame Time - ms < Lower Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 3.25 |================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 3.66 |=================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 3.26 |================= Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 3.28 |================= Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 4.00 |===================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 4.01 |===================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 3.87 |==================== Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 3.78 |==================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 8.43 |============================================ GL-vs-VK 2017-06-05 Test: Shadow Mapping - API: Vulkan - Multi-Threaded: No FPS > Higher Is Better Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. 307.98 |========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... 273.16 |===================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... 306.70 |========================================== Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . 304.52 |========================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. 250.09 |================================== Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . 249.21 |================================== Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ 258.24 |=================================== Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... 265.30 |==================================== Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... 118.58 |================ CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Percent Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti .. MIN: 0 AVG: 26 MAX: 93 Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1050 .... MIN: 0 AVG: 25 MAX: 94 Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1060 .... MIN: 0 AVG: 25 MAX: 97 Vulkan: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti . MIN: 0 AVG: 25 MAX: 92 Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 .. MIN: 0 AVG: 24 MAX: 98 Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury . MIN: 0 AVG: 24 MAX: 98 Vulkan: Open RX 580 ........ MIN: 0 AVG: 26 MAX: 95 Vulkan: Open R9 Fury ....... MIN: 0 AVG: 25 MAX: 95 Vulkan: Intel HD 630 ....... MIN: 0 AVG: 24 MAX: 79