sketchy vulkan benchmarks: lavapipe vs swiftshader
Mike, the zink dev, mentioned that swiftshader seemed slow at some stuff and I realised I've never expended much effort in checking swiftshader vs llvmpipe in benchmarks. The thing is CPU rendering is pretty much going to top out on memory bandwidth pretty quickly but I decided to do some rough napkin benchmarks using the vulkan samples from Sascha Willems. I'd also thought that due to having a few devs and the fact that it was used instead of mesa by google for lots of things that llvmpipe would be slower since it hasn't really gotten dedicated development resources. I picked a random smattering of Vulkan samples and ran them on my Ryzen workstation without doing anything else, in their default window size. The first number is lavapipe fps the second swiftshader. gears: 336 309 instancing: 3 3 ssao: 19 9 deferredmultisampling: 11 4 computeparticles: 9 8 computeshader: 73 57 computeshader sharpen: 54 34 I guess the swift is just good marketing name, now I'm not sure