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| 12 | <h2>RADV vs. AMDVLK vs. Radeon Software Vulkan Driver Performance - October 2018 Linux Gaming</h2> |
| 13 | <div class='details'>([linux_gaming] 2018-10-09_15-00)</div> |
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| 16 | <li>Reference: <a href=''>2018-10-09_15-00_RADV_vs__AMDVLK_vs__Rad</a></li> |
| 17 | <li>News link: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9lewod/radv_vs_amdvlk_vs_radeon_software_vulkan_driver/'>https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9lewod/radv_vs_amdvlk_vs_radeon_software_vulkan_driver/</a></li> |
| 18 | <li>Source link: <a href='https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdvlk-radv-okt18&num=1'>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdvlk-radv-okt18&num=1</a></li> |
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| 22 | The fact that there are two drivers is the biggest headscratcher from AMD really since they started really doing a good job. I can't see why they are fragmenting that one specific thing rather than just slowly merging it into RADV. |
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| 26 | <h3>FlukyS</h3> |
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| 28 | <div class='comment_content'><p>The fact that there are two drivers is the biggest headscratcher from AMD really since they started really doing a good job. I can't see why they are fragmenting that one specific thing rather than just slowly merging it into RADV.</p></div> |
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| 30 | <h3>PolygonKiwii</h3> |
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| 32 | <div class='comment_content'><p>Because radv isn't their driver and amdvlk shares its code with the windows driver.</p><p>But it's not that bad, as the biggest performance gains will likely come from optimizing llvm, which both drivers make use of*.</p><p>Also it's not a problem to install two Vulkan drivers side by side so users could always do that if they really need both.</p><p>* except for the pro stack, which uses a proprietary compiler shared with windows. I think their plan was to improve llvm and replace the proprietary compiler when llvm caught up in performance, but don't quote me on that</p></div> |
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