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Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Linux Drivers Strike Another Optimization For Tiger Lake

Intel merged a change to benefit Intel’s Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers for making use of the HDC data cache for uniform buffer object (UBO) pulls on Gen12+ hardware, namely Tiger Lake at this point. By making use of the data cache for UBO pulls, there is generally up to another few percent improvements for various OpenGL and Vulkan games running on Linux—either natively or through the likes of the DXVK layer. Some improvements cited in the merge include:

  • GTA V DXVK 104.0%
  • Talos Principle GL 102.8%
  • Rise of Tomb Raider VK 102.8%
  • Dark Souls 3 DXVK 101.4%
  • Witcher3 DXVK 101.3%
  • Bioshock Infinite GL 100.5%
  • Doom 2016 VK 97.7%