Hey there! I don’t have much idea regarding how graphic APIs work, that’s why this question. There are multiple resources that claim that Vulkan provides much more performance than openGL. Now, I use an AMD APU (Ryzen 5 3500U with vega 8 igpu).
So should I install the vulkan-icd-loader and vulkan-radeon packages? or just keep everything as it is? if my system won’t really benefit much from it, in terms of performance gain, then I would probably pass on the installation.
If I understood something incorrectly regarding these, I would also be happy with a link regarding these concepts.
Thanks
System:
Kernel: 6.2.13-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.4 tk: Qt v: 5.15.9 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP 255 G8 Notebook PC
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 87D1 v: 38.25 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
v: F.31 date: 06/16/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 12.0 Wh (32.2%) condition: 37.3/40.9 Wh (91.3%)
volts: 11.0 min: 11.3 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check rev: 1 cache:
L1: 384 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1417 high: 2100 min/max: 1400/2100 boost: enabled cores:
1: 1206 2: 2100 3: 1333 4: 1275 5: 1400 6: 1400 7: 1400 8: 1222
bogomips: 33546
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 pcie:
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300 temp: 39.0 C
Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-2.1:3 chip-ID: 30c9:0035 class-ID: fe01
serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.3 renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
(raven LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.2.13-arch1-1) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.2.13-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.70 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 3-2.3:4 chip-ID: 0bda:b00c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.6 TiB used: 38.77 GiB (2.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: 256GB NVME EVM size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: U0914A0L temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-60Z10T1
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: 1A05 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Samsung model: PSSD T7 size: 465.76 GiB
type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 222.53 GiB used: 38.55 GiB (17.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1
mapped: luks-26c3b8b0-03df-46b6-ba52-fa29ceb6ddcb
ID-2: /home size: 222.53 GiB used: 38.55 GiB (17.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: luks-26c3b8b0-03df-46b6-ba52-fa29ceb6ddcb
ID-3: /var/log size: 222.53 GiB used: 38.55 GiB (17.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: luks-26c3b8b0-03df-46b6-ba52-fa29ceb6ddcb
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 14.96 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: luks-e3135738-110a-480e-83bc-ba816d45bde4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 1059 pm: pacman pkgs: 1032 pm: flatpak pkgs: 27
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist
1: https://cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
2: https://geo-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
3: https://au-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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20: https://de-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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26: https://in-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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28: https://in-3-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
29: https://in-4-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
30: https://in-5-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
31: https://in-6-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
32: https://in-7-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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34: https://it-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
35: https://jp-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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38: https://kr-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
39: https://kr-3-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
40: https://mx-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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44: https://za-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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46: https://es-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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50: https://ae-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
51: https://ae-3-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
52: https://uk-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
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54: https://uk-3-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
55: https://us-az-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
56: https://us-az-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
57: https://us-ca-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
58: https://us-fl-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
59: https://us-mi-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
60: https://us-mi-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
61: https://us-ny-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
62: https://us-tx-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
63: https://us-ut-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
64: https://us-va-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/endeavouros-mirrorlist
1: https://md.mirrors.hacktegic.com/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.moson.org/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
3: https://mirror.alpix.eu/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
4: https://mirror.albony.xyz/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
5: https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
6: https://mirror.freedif.org/EndeavourOS/repo/$repo/$arch
7: https://mirror.jordanrey.me/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
8: https://mirror.linux.pizza/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
9: https://ca.gate.endeavouros.com/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
10: https://mirror.archlinux.tw/EndeavourOS/repo/$repo/$arch
11: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
12: https://mirror.funami.tech/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
13: https://de.freedif.org/EndeavourOS/repo/$repo/$arch
14: https://fastmirror.pp.ua/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://mirrors.nxtgen.com/archlinux-mirror/$repo/os/$arch
Info:
Processes: 271 Uptime: 18m wakeups: 1 Memory: 13.6 GiB
used: 2.22 GiB (16.3%) Init: systemd v: 253 default: graphical Compilers:
gcc: 12.2.1 Shell: fish v: 3.6.1 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.26