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RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics
The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems.
RADV has long been the preferred option by Linux gamers and what Valve invests into working on with their open-source software efforts and used by the Steam Deck / SteamOS. For this round of benchmarking with the HP ZBook Ultra G1a featuring the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with Radeon 8060S Graphics I was using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. Page 1 - IntroductionPage 2 - Counter-Strike 2 + Cyberpunk 2077 + HITMANPage 3 - Strange Brigade + F1 + DiRT RallyPage 4 - Batman + Talos Principle + GravityMark Ray-TracingPage 5 - 3DMark + DDraceNetwork + Quake II RTXPage 6 - Y-Quake 2 + Furmark + VkMarkPage 7 - Vulkan ComputePage 8 - RADV vs. AMDVLK Drivers
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