Vulkan status

Gapil · April 3, 2018, 4:44am

anonymous_user_f1224681:

Just registered to respond to this because it made me facepalm, no offence.
AMD cards are expected to be faster in Vulkan than NV because Vulkan is based on the open sourced AMD Mantle API. Just look up AMD and Khronos Group statements on the topic.
It would take Nvidia to redesign their GPU architecture to have significant performance gains, it is not something that will happen fast. Rather than that expect smaller step-by-step improvement in the future as Vulkan evolves and implements changes proposed by the each member of the Khronos OpenGL/Vulkan workgroups.

The MAJOR goal with Nvidia 700/900/1000 series GPUs was to NOT have a detrimental performance using Vulkan, which you can observe on older Fermi architecture based 400/500/600 Nvidia cards, which they have accomplished successfully.
So in short, it’s working as it should, save yourself some time on the profiling.

You do not need to get that harsh with Rolando, hes not saying that NV should be as fast or faster than AMD, hes just trying to explain that Vulkan on NV should be at least on par with D3D11, it isn’t so hes profiling that.