Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Performance For The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 20 March 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 36 Comments.
With the Linux native build of 3DMark Wild Life Extreme, the AMDVLK driver had around a 10% lead over the RADV driver.
With ray-tracing disabled, GPUScore: Breaking Limit was competitive between AMDVLK and RADV on these RDNA4 GPUs.
But where the AMDVLK driver continues to have the advantage is with the Vulkan ray-tracing performance... Much better Vulkan RT performance with AMDVLK in the Breaking Limit benchmark.
With Quake II RTX, the AMDVLK driver remained much faster than the RADV driver for the Radeon RX 9070 series for Vulkan ray-tracing.