Report: Doom's Vulkan renderer proves a boon for Radeons
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Doom's Vulkan rendering path became available to the public this week, and its arrival appears to be a boon for Radeon owners. German site Computer Base ran some new benchmarks with Vulkan turned on for Doom, and the results are rather surprising. At 1920x1080 with graphics settings maxed out, the top-end Radeon R9 Fury X churned out 160.4 frames per second with Vulkan, a 66% increase over its 96.7 FPS showing with OpenGL. The Radeon RX 480 gets a 46% boost or so with Vulkan on, too. It runs the game at 122.6 FPS with the low-overhead API, compared to 83.8 FPS delivered with OpenGL.
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