{"id":369892,"date":"2025-12-25T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369892\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:53:08","slug":"final-benchmarks-of-amdvlk-vs-radv-amd-radeon-vulkan-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369892\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasant surprises this year was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/AMDVLK-Discontinued\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMD ending the AMDVLK driver development<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Radeon-Software-Drop-Prop-GL-VK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMD dropping their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan driver components<\/a> on Linux at long last for their Radeon Software for Linux packages. This was arguably long overdue with enthusiasts and Linux gamers long preferring the RadeonSI+RADV Mesa drivers and those drivers even doing very well in recent years for workstation graphics workloads. One of the areas where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/search\/AMDVLK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMDVLK<\/a> formerly delivered better performance than RADV was with Vulkan ray-tracing. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/review\/radeon-radv-rt-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RADV ray-tracing improved a lot in 2025<\/a> as shown in recent benchmarks. So for this Christmas 2025 benchmarking is a final look at how RADV is going up against the now-defunct AMDVLK driver.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-radv-amdvlk-final&amp;image=amdvlk_final_1_lrg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766692387_226_image\" alt=\"AMDVLK driver tests\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/AMDVLK-Four-Months-Go\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMD stopped AMDVLK development in May<\/a> in favor of focusing exclusively on RADV moving forward for Vulkan Linux needs. For this end-of-year benchmarking is a last look at the AMDVLK driver performance compared to the latest Mesa RADV driver state &#8212; including for Vulkan ray-tracing which was the last stronghold for the AMDVLK driver.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-radv-amdvlk-final&amp;image=amdvlk_final_2_lrg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766692388_644_image\" alt=\"AMDVLK driver on Ubuntu Linux 25.10\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards as the last to be supported by AMDVLK, I ran benchmarks of the AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 final release against RADV as of Mesa 26.0-devel as of 20 December via the Mesa ACO PPA for easy reproducibility. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D test system was running Ubuntu 25.10 with an upgrade to the Linux 6.18 kernel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/phoronix.com\/benchmark\/result\/final-benchmarks-of-amdvlk-vs-radv-drivers\/result.svgz\" alt=\"Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV Drivers\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A variety of Vulkan graphics and compute benchmarks were then run for RADV and AMDVLK on these Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards for seeing how the performance compares.<\/p>\n<p>Page 1 &#8211; IntroductionPage 2 &#8211; RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Graphics BenchmarksPage 3 &#8211; RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Ray-Tracing BenchmarksPage 4 &#8211; RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Ray-Tracing BenchmarksPage 5 &#8211; RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Compute Benchmarks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the pleasant surprises this year was AMD ending the AMDVLK driver development with AMD dropping their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-369892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}