Tuesday, February 16th 2016
AMD Announces Radeon Software Beta for Vulkan
AMD announced its first public beta driver featuring support for the Vulkan API. The company is a major contributor to the development of the API, since most of it is based on its Mantle code. Version 16.15.1009 supports Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. All of AMD's Graphics CoreNext based GPUs and APUs support Vulkan. This includes the company's Radeon HD 7700 series thru HD 7900 series; R9/R7 200 series, R9/R7 300 series, the R9 Fury series, and AMD APUs based on the "Godavari" and "Carrizo" silicons. This driver comes just in time for the Vulkan release of The Talos Principle.
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If I don't report back I'm done dead and it killed the card lol...
nwgat.ninja/the-talos-prinicple-in-vulkan/
I wonder if anyone is going to do benchies :D
DX11
Duration: 60.0 seconds (3917 frames)
Average: 65.3 FPS (67.6 w/o extremes)
Extremes: 118.3 max, 25.9 min
Sections: AI=6%, physics=1%, sound=1%, scene=73%, shadows=13%, misc=5%
Highs: 533 in 6.2 seconds (85.8 FPS)
Lows: 725 in 14.4 seconds (50.3 FPS)
30-60 FPS: 26%
60> FPS: 74%
Vulkan
Duration: 58.8 seconds (2475 frames)
Average: 42.1 FPS (43.5 w/o extremes)
Extremes: 153.8 max, 4.4 min
Sections: AI=4%, physics=1%, sound=1%, scene=81%, shadows=9%, misc=3%
Highs: 97 in 1.3 seconds (72.5 FPS)
Lows: 202 in 7.5 seconds (27.1 FPS)
< 20 FPS: 1%
20-30 FPS: 2%
30-60 FPS: 93%
60> FPS: 4%
EDIT: Open beta is available on Steam for current Talos Principle owners, so I guess I need to scrap some cash to finally buy it.
Still, it's a nice improvement over the old architecture.
PS
Oh, and Dear ScaredMicrosoftWindowsStoreWouldEndMyMonopoly Valve, please move your fat rich monopolistic (yeahyeah "only 70%+ isn't a monopoly, I remember") a** to give Vulkan a chance.
PPS
Oh, wow, Vulkan support was promised in Unreal 4.9 (Aug 2015)
https://youtu.be/v74oJ5552mQ
I compared all available in game APIs: vulkan, dx9, 11 and opengl on fx-8320 and r9 380 4GB.
More you can read here:
steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/412447331651559970/#c412447331652212809
If you don't want to compile them, here are precompiled ones you have to put on the bin folder of the git clone: vulkan.gpuinfo.org/examples.php
Well 2 good things, AMD finally has full OpenGL 4.5 support (it was missing GLSL 4.50), and Vulkan is working a 7/10 on my HD7750, some examples have corrupt shadows or ilumination, and the tesselation test crashes (maybe it's optimized for nvidia, or the BETA name means something).