Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers

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👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: Off, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: Off, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_query. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: On, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. RX 9070 XT: AMDVLK was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: On, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_query. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Low, Denoiser: Off, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Low, Denoiser: Off, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_query. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Low, Denoiser: On, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Low, Denoiser: On, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_query. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: High, Denoiser: Off, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. RX 9070 XT: AMDVLK was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: High, Denoiser: Off, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_query. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: High, Denoiser: On, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline. RX 9070 XT: AMDVLK was the fastest.

👁 Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: High, Denoiser: On, RT API: VK_KHR_ray_query. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

With the Quake II RTX game using Vulkan ray-tracing, RADV closed the gap with AMDVLK and was offering similar performance between these AMD Vulkan Linux drivers.

👁 Ray Tracing In Vulkan benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Scene: Ray Tracing In One Weekend. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Ray Tracing In Vulkan benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Scene: Planets In One Weekend. RX 9070 XT: RADV was the fastest.

👁 Ray Tracing In Vulkan benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Scene: Lucy In One Weekend. RX 9070 XT: AMDVLK was the fastest.

👁 Ray Tracing In Vulkan benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Scene: Cornell Box. RX 9070 XT: AMDVLK was the fastest.

👁 Ray Tracing In Vulkan benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Scene: Cornell Box + Lucy. RX 9070 XT: AMDVLK was the fastest.

With the Ray Tracing In Vulkan demos of Vulkan ray-tracing, RADV is now faster than the final AMDVLK driver release on these RDNA4 graphics cards.

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