Vulkan vs. OpenGL API Drivers

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ProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskGraphicsAudioNetworkMonitorOSKernelDesktopDisplay ServerDisplay DriverOpenGLOpenCLVulkanCompilerFile-SystemScreen ResolutionVulkan NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1060 NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1050 AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury Intel HD 630 Open RX 580 Open R9 FuryIntel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores)MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0Intel Device 591f + Z27016384MBSamsung SSD 950 PRO 256GBNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz)Realtek ALC892Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411Ubuntu 16.044.8.0-53-generic (x86_64)Unity 7.4.0X Server 1.18.4NVIDIA 381.224.5.0OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.01.0.42GCC 5.4.0 20160609ext43840x2160NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB (1506/4006MHz)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11264MB (403/5508MHz)Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB (1316/3504MHz)MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MBAcer B286HKmodesetting 1.18.44.5.13474OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2348.3)Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4096MBIntel Device 591fIntel HD 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz)4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 201706044.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA1.0.21MSI AMD POLARIS10 8192MB4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0)Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MBOpenBenchmarking.orgCompiler Details- --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v Processor Details- Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performanceGraphics Details- Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO RX 580, Vulkan: AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury: GLAMOR

gl-vs-vk: Static Scene - Yesgl-vs-vk: Static Scene - Nogl-vs-vk: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Yesgl-vs-vk: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Nogl-vs-vk: Shadow Mapping - Yesgl-vs-vk: Shadow Mapping - NoVulkanOpenGL NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1060 NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1050 AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury Intel HD 630 Open RX 580 Open R9 Fury NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1050 NVIDIA GTX 1060 NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti AMDGPU-PRO RX 580 AMDGPU-PRO R9 Fury Open R9 Fury Open RX 580 Intel HD 63019.9478.9210.4215.703.843.2520.9878.7410.3415.642.853.2620.9079.2010.3415.651.023.2820.8679.0010.3515.643.963.6625.6395.8112.8019.641.624.0026.9395.9312.5919.441.614.0136.81100.2121.4820.998.708.4321.7391.1615.1324.016.013.8722.9790.4115.2124.706.643.7885.94136.6219.435.6184.28134.5719.465.6085.67133.1919.255.5985.69137.1919.135.57161.95210.9428.917.46161.18210.7229.207.50116.41168.2623.686.32116.87167.6723.376.29188.00237.5662.5012.60OpenBenchmarking.org

GL-vs-VK

Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: Yes

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFrame Time - ms, Fewer Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: YesOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti4080120160200SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.16, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.19, N = 3SE +/- 0.12, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 2.70, N = 3SE +/- 0.99, N = 3SE +/- 1.23, N = 3SE +/- 1.65, N = 3SE +/- 1.61, N = 3SE +/- 0.62, N = 3SE +/- 0.67, N = 3SE +/- 0.22, N = 3SE +/- 0.65, N = 322.9721.7336.8126.9325.6320.8620.9020.9819.94188.00116.87116.41161.18161.9585.6985.6784.2885.941. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: Yes

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: YesOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti1122334455SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.12, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.29, N = 3SE +/- 0.28, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.21, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 343.5446.0327.1737.1339.0247.9447.8647.6750.165.328.568.596.216.1811.6711.6711.8711.641. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: No

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFrame Time - ms, Fewer Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: NoOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti50100150200250SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.42, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 3SE +/- 0.37, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 1.32, N = 3SE +/- 0.46, N = 3SE +/- 0.48, N = 3SE +/- 2.38, N = 3SE +/- 2.10, N = 3SE +/- 2.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.46, N = 3SE +/- 0.66, N = 3SE +/- 1.73, N = 390.4191.16100.2195.9395.8179.0079.2078.7478.92237.56167.67168.26210.72210.94137.19133.19134.57136.621. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: No

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Static Scene - Multi-Threaded: NoOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti3691215SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 311.0610.979.9810.4210.4412.6612.6312.7012.674.215.965.944.754.747.297.517.437.321. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: Yes

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrame Time - ms, Fewer Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: YesOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti510152025SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 315.2115.1321.4812.5912.8010.3510.3410.3410.42-rdynamic - MAX: 25.08-rdynamic - MAX: 20.99-rdynamic - MAX: 53.05-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 17.75-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 18.45-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 36.49-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 24.74-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 23.37-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 24.621. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: Yes

OpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: YesOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti20406080100SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.88, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 365.7666.0946.5679.4578.1796.6596.7096.7195.99-rdynamic - MIN: 39.87 / MAX: 9433962.26-rdynamic - MIN: 47.63 / MAX: 9090909.09-rdynamic - MIN: 18.85 / MAX: 9259259.26-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 56.34 / MAX: 10638297.87-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 54.19 / MAX: 8620689.65-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 27.4 / MAX: 7142857.14-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 40.42 / MAX: 8000000-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 42.79 / MAX: 8403361.34-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 40.62 / MAX: 7352941.181. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: No

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFrame Time - ms, Fewer Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: NoOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti1428425670SE +/- 0.75, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.19, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.18, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.21, N = 3SE +/- 0.41, N = 3SE +/- 0.41, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 324.7024.0120.9919.4419.6415.6415.6515.6415.7062.5023.3723.6829.2028.9119.1319.2519.4619.431. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: No

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Terrain With Dynamic LoD - Multi-Threaded: NoOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti1428425670SE +/- 1.19, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.49, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.38, N = 3SE +/- 0.47, N = 3SE +/- 0.48, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.30, N = 3SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.45, N = 340.5641.6547.6551.4450.9263.9263.9063.9463.6816.0042.7942.2434.2634.6052.2751.9451.4051.481. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: Yes

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrame Time - ms, Fewer Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: YesOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti246810SE +/- 0.69, N = 3SE +/- 0.64, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.40, N = 3SE +/- 0.66, N = 36.646.018.701.611.623.961.022.853.84-rdynamic - MAX: 10.54-rdynamic - MAX: 13.45-rdynamic - MAX: 18.48-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 4.56-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 5.37-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 17.01-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 16.31-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 16.02-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MAX: 21.451. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: Yes

OpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: YesOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti2004006008001000SE +/- 17.86, N = 3SE +/- 20.51, N = 3SE +/- 0.22, N = 3SE +/- 1.19, N = 3SE +/- 6.51, N = 3SE +/- 2.93, N = 3SE +/- 4.30, N = 3SE +/- 57.01, N = 3SE +/- 57.14, N = 3154.34170.91114.90622.47618.24252.31979.40367.02279.77-rdynamic - MIN: 94.84 / MAX: 9090909.09-rdynamic - MIN: 74.35 / MAX: 6211180.12-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 219.1 / MAX: 5434782.61-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 186.13 / MAX: 8771929.82-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 58.79 / MAX: 7518796.99-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 61.3 / MAX: 7633587.78-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 62.41 / MAX: 10752688.17-std=c++11 -lpthread -lm -ldl - MIN: 46.61 / MAX: 7936507.941. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: No

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFrame Time - ms, Fewer Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: NoOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti3691215SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 33.783.878.434.014.003.663.283.263.2512.606.296.327.507.465.575.595.605.611. (CXX) g++ options:

GL-vs-VK

Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: No

VulkanOpenGLOpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterGL-vs-VK 2017-06-05Test: Shadow Mapping - Multi-Threaded: NoOpen R9 FuryOpen RX 580Intel HD 630AMDGPU-PRO R9 FuryAMDGPU-PRO RX 580NVIDIA GTX 1050NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiNVIDIA GTX 1060NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti70140210280350SE +/- 9.23, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.48, N = 3SE +/- 1.79, N = 3SE +/- 0.84, N = 3SE +/- 0.20, N = 3SE +/- 0.63, N = 3SE +/- 0.77, N = 3SE +/- 0.25, N = 3SE +/- 1.04, N = 3SE +/- 1.22, N = 3SE +/- 0.36, N = 3SE +/- 0.97, N = 3SE +/- 0.67, N = 3SE +/- 0.32, N = 3SE +/- 0.98, N = 3SE +/- 0.81, N = 3265.30258.24118.58249.21250.09273.16304.52306.70307.9879.39158.98158.15133.38134.04179.45179.02178.49178.361. (CXX) g++ options:

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