AMD Announces Radeon Software Beta for Vulkan

btarunr · Feb 17, 2016

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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fullinfusion · Feb 17, 2016

Sweet, I've see this Vulkan software out a day or so ago and think why not giver a try.

If I don't report back I'm done dead and it killed the card lol...

wiak · Feb 17, 2016

if you have "The Talos Principle" you can play with Vulkan API right now =)
https://nwgat.ninja/the-talos-prinicple-in-vulkan/

fullinfusion · Feb 17, 2016

wiak said:
if you have "The Talos Principle" you can play with Vulkan API right now =)
https://nwgat.ninja/the-talos-prinicple-in-vulkan/

Didn't get the CC center in this driver which blows!

TheGuruStud · Feb 17, 2016

Ooooohhh, shiny!

I wonder if anyone is going to do benchies

silentbogo · Feb 17, 2016

TheGuruStud said:
Ooooohhh, shiny!

I wonder if anyone is going to do benchies

I'd love to, but I don't have Talos Principle, and I am not sure that steam demo was also updated to support Vulkan.

RMX · Feb 17, 2016

Yea...goodluck with that. The Talos Principle testing:

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%

Ferrum Master · Feb 17, 2016

silentbogo said:
I'd love to, but I don't have Talos Principle, and I am not sure that steam demo was also updated to support Vulkan.

The dev stated it has free beta, they need guinea pigs a lot... it seems to be very hard code wise... well it still doesn't top DX11... albeit openGL mode never did... showing those benchmark numbers are bad taste... vulkan must be compared against older OpenGL mode... now with Vulkan it is better already, but still much more to desire...

silentbogo · Feb 17, 2016

Ferrum Master said:
The dev stated it has free beta, they need guinea pigs a lot... it seems to be very hard code wise... well it still doesn't top DX11... albeit openGL mode never did... showing those benchmark numbers are bad taste... vulkan must be compared against older OpenGL mode... now with Vulkan it is better already, but still much more to desire...

I had larger difference between DX11 and OpenGL before Vulkan, so it looks like an improvement, just not as drastic as everyone expected...
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.

Jermelescu · Feb 17, 2016

Anyone who ever thought that Vulkan will beat DX12's performance is delusional.
Still, it's a nice improvement over the old architecture.

wiak · Feb 17, 2016

Jermelescu said:
Anyone who ever thought that Vulkan will beat DX12's performance is delusional.
Still, it's a nice improvement over the old architecture.

Vulkan drivers are still beta, DX12 ones had almost a year of work to them and has been battle tested more

medi01 · Feb 17, 2016

I, for one, would welcome the end of Microsoft DirectX dominance, although, see no signs of it happening any time soon.

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)

spectatorx · Feb 17, 2016

If anyone needs more benchmarks here is a video from me:
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:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/412447331651559970/#c412447331652212809

R-T-B · Feb 18, 2016

Jermelescu said:
Anyone who ever thought that Vulkan will beat DX12's performance is delusional.
Still, it's a nice improvement over the old architecture.

No, anyone who thinks a brand new beta renderer is a valid example of performance is delusional.

GoldenX · Feb 18, 2016

Some demos: https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan
If you don't want to compile them, here are precompiled ones you have to put on the bin folder of the git clone: http://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).

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