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panvk_faux123_rp4pro_v0.14.0 vs Mali-G77 MC9

On Mali-G77 (Infinix GT 10 Pro, Redmi K40 Gaming, Redmi Note 10 Pro, Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G). The first driver named is compared against the second, which is the baseline.

StockMali-G77 MC9v1.r32p1-01eac0.efd03ef21f136842c0935bd4f493fe81

Custompanvk_faux123_rp4pro_v0.14.0Mesa 26.3.0-devel (git-e8ddb4e9e7)

Graphics system version (Vulkan)1.1.177 to 1.3.354

Optional features (extensions)68 to 166+101 -3

Features that pass their check (validated)28 to 4921 pass only on panvk_faux123_rp4pro_v0.14.0 0 pass only on Mali-G77 MC9

Speed test scenes (benchmark)2 faster 2 slower 1 even2% faster overall (geometric mean)

Games each driver could run (an estimate from its feature list): green likely, yellow maybe, orange limited, red no

StockDX92002+DX102006+DX112009+DX122015+Switch

CustomDX92002+DX102006+DX112009+DX122015+Switch

compute_nbody37% faster
hdr_2160p2% slower
oit_linked_lists3% slower
pipeline_barriers17% slower
subpasses4% faster

Custom driver against stock, per scene. Bars to the right are faster, to the left slower.

Small areas of the picture differ from the stock driver in 1 scene (pipeline_barriers: 1246 of 2304 cells). The picture matches overall, so this is a local rendering fault, not a different scene.

Did not start every time: oit_linked_lists (stock 0 of 3, custom 3 of 3).

Not on equal terms: the GPU clock differed during 1 of these scenes (for example compute_nbody: stock at 620 MHz, custom at 829 MHz). Part of the frame-time difference comes from the clock the device chose, not from the driver.

Mali-G77 MC9 details panvk_faux123_rp4pro_v0.14.0 details

Feature checks that differ (43)

Feature	Stock	Custom	Change
borderColorSwizzle VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle	unsupported	pass	gained
colorWriteEnable VK_EXT_color_write_enable	unsupported	pass	gained
depthClipControl VK_EXT_depth_clip_control	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState2 VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState2LogicOp VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState3ColorBlendEnable VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState3ColorBlendEquation VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState3ColorWriteMask VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState3DepthClampEnable VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	pass	gained
extendedDynamicState3LogicOpEnable VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	pass	gained
robustBufferAccess2 VK_EXT_robustness2	unsupported	pass	gained
vertexInputDynamicState VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state	unsupported	pass	gained
shaderBufferInt64Atomics VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64	unsupported	pass	gained
timelineSemaphore VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore	fail	pass	gained
multiDrawIndirect VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	pass	gained
multiViewport VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	pass	gained
textureCompressionBC VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	pass	gained
push.max_combined_image_samplers core	unsupported	pass	gained
push.max_uniform_buffers core	unsupported	pass	gained
stress.multi_draw_indirect_large core	unsupported	pass	gained
borderColorSwizzleFromImage VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle	unsupported	untested	changed
depthBiasControl VK_EXT_depth_bias_control	unsupported	untested	changed
depthBiasExact VK_EXT_depth_bias_control	unsupported	untested	changed
extendedDynamicState3AlphaToCoverageEnable VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	untested	changed
extendedDynamicState3DepthClipEnable VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	untested	changed
extendedDynamicState3LineRasterizationMode VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	untested	changed
extendedDynamicState3RasterizationSamples VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	untested	changed
extendedDynamicState3SampleMask VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	unsupported	untested	changed
nullDescriptor VK_EXT_robustness2	unsupported	untested	changed
geometryStreams VK_EXT_transform_feedback	unsupported	untested	changed
shaderSharedInt64Atomics VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64	unsupported	untested	changed
dualSrcBlend VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
fillModeNonSolid VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
logicOp VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
pipelineStatisticsQuery VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
shaderClipDistance VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
shaderCullDistance VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
shaderInt64 VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
shaderTessellationAndGeometryPointSize VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
variableMultisampleRate VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
vertexPipelineStoresAndAtomics VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed
wideLines VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	unsupported	untested	changed

Speed test scenes (benchmark)

The two drivers were not measured on the same set of device models. Frame times from different devices do not compare drivers, so read these numbers with that in mind.

Scene	Stock ms	Custom ms	Difference	Starts	GPU clock, MHz	Picture vs stock
compute_nbody	22.12 typical 21.64	16.18 typical 15.79	37% faster	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	620 vs 829 not comparable	no large difference 0.0 no small difference worst 0.3 64x36
hdr_2160p	41.42 typical 41.40	42.12 typical 42.00	2% slower	? vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
oit_linked_lists	23.59 typical 23.50	24.28 typical 24.25	3% slower	0 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs 836 clock unknown	not checked
pipeline_barriers	8.83 typical 8.87	10.67 typical 10.77	17% slower	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	802 vs 836	no large difference 8.4 differs in 1246 small areas worst 60.3 64x36
subpasses	20.23 typical 20.24	19.48 typical 19.46	4% faster	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	836 vs 836	not checked

Time to draw one frame, per scene: the average (mean) frame time of the scene's best round, which is how many frames the driver delivered; lower is faster. "Typical" beside it is the median frame, which can sit well under the average when a driver's frames come in two speeds. A pair of reports made before per-round averages were recorded is compared on the median. A scene whose rounds disagree by more than 15% is left out. A scene marked "paced" was held at that mean frame time by the driver or the display queue, together with at least one other scene of the same run; its time says how the frames were spaced, not how fast the driver rendered, so it is not compared. A scene marked "too light" took under 8 ms at the standard size (1920 by 1080) on both drivers, where the screen's frame queue spaces the frames more than the chip does; its heavier run is the one compared: the row ending in _2160p is the scene drawn at 3840 by 2160, and compute_nbody_2x is that scene with twice the particles. "Faster" and "slower" describe panvk_faux123_rp4pro_v0.14.0 against Mali-G77 MC9. "Picture vs stock" compares one fixed frame per scene as a coarse colour grid (0 is identical, above 40 is a different picture); it finds a scene that was not drawn. Where both reports carry the finer 64x36 grid, the second figure is how many of its 2,304 cells differ by more than 4 of 255, and "worst" is the largest single cell; this is what finds a small rendering error in a picture that otherwise matches. A row marked 16x9 comes from a report made before the finer grid existed. "Starts" is how many of a scene's process starts reached a measured round. A GPU clock marked "not comparable" differed by more than 5% of the device's maximum between the two timings.

Technical differences (Vulkan)

Extensions only in panvk_faux123_rp4pro_v0.14.0 (101)

VK_ARM_scheduling_controls
VK_ARM_shader_core_builtins
VK_ARM_shader_core_properties
VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_dynamic_state
VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_layout
VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle
VK_EXT_buffer_device_address
VK_EXT_color_write_enable
VK_EXT_debug_marker
VK_EXT_depth_bias_control
VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control
VK_EXT_depth_clamp_zero_one
VK_EXT_depth_clip_control
VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
VK_EXT_device_address_binding_report
VK_EXT_dynamic_rendering_unused_attachments
VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2
VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3
VK_EXT_external_memory_acquire_unmodified
VK_EXT_global_priority_query
VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library
VK_EXT_hdr_metadata
VK_EXT_host_image_copy
VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d
VK_EXT_image_sliced_view_of_3d
VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod
VK_EXT_legacy_dithering
VK_EXT_load_store_op_none
VK_EXT_map_memory_placed
VK_EXT_memory_budget
VK_EXT_multisampled_render_to_single_sampled
VK_EXT_mutable_descriptor_type
VK_EXT_non_seamless_cube_map
VK_EXT_physical_device_drm
VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control
VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_feedback
VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness
VK_EXT_primitive_topology_list_restart
VK_EXT_private_data
VK_EXT_robustness2
VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float
VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier
VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites
VK_EXT_shader_stencil_export
VK_EXT_shader_tile_image
VK_EXT_shader_uniform_buffer_unsized_array
VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment
VK_EXT_tooling_info
VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor
VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state
VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory
VK_GOOGLE_decorate_string
VK_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
VK_GOOGLE_user_type
VK_KHR_calibrated_timestamps
VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives
VK_KHR_copy_commands2
VK_KHR_depth_clamp_zero_one
VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count
VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering
VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read
VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2
VK_KHR_global_priority
VK_KHR_index_type_uint8
VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues
VK_KHR_line_rasterization
VK_KHR_load_store_op_none
VK_KHR_maintenance4
VK_KHR_maintenance5
VK_KHR_maintenance6
VK_KHR_maintenance7
VK_KHR_maintenance8
VK_KHR_maintenance9
VK_KHR_map_memory2
VK_KHR_pipeline_binary
VK_KHR_pipeline_executable_properties
VK_KHR_pipeline_library
VK_KHR_push_descriptor
VK_KHR_robustness2
VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64
VK_KHR_shader_clock
VK_KHR_shader_expect_assume
VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2
VK_KHR_shader_fma
VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product
VK_KHR_shader_maximal_reconvergence
VK_KHR_shader_quad_control
VK_KHR_shader_relaxed_extended_instruction
VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_rotate
VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow
VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation
VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers
VK_KHR_synchronization2
VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts
VK_KHR_vertex_attribute_divisor
VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout
VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory
VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type

Extensions only in Mali-G77 MC9 (3)

VK_EXT_fragment_density_map
VK_EXT_fragment_density_map2
VK_KHR_shared_presentable_image

Core features that differ (65)

multiview Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
samplerYcbcrConversion Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
shaderDrawParameters Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
storageBuffer16BitAccess Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
storageInputOutput16 Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
storagePushConstant16 Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
uniformAndStorageBuffer16BitAccess Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
variablePointers Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
variablePointersStorageBuffer Vulkan 1.1	unsupported to pass
bufferDeviceAddress Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingPartiallyBound Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingSampledImageUpdateAfterBind Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingStorageBufferUpdateAfterBind Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingStorageImageUpdateAfterBind Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingStorageTexelBufferUpdateAfterBind Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingUniformBufferUpdateAfterBind Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingUniformTexelBufferUpdateAfterBind Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingUpdateUnusedWhilePending Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingVariableDescriptorCount Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
descriptorIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
drawIndirectCount Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
hostQueryReset Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
imagelessFramebuffer Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
runtimeDescriptorArray Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
samplerMirrorClampToEdge Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
scalarBlockLayout Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
separateDepthStencilLayouts Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderBufferInt64Atomics Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderInputAttachmentArrayDynamicIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderInputAttachmentArrayNonUniformIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderInt8 Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderSampledImageArrayNonUniformIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderSharedInt64Atomics Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderStorageBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderStorageImageArrayNonUniformIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderStorageTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderStorageTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderSubgroupExtendedTypes Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderUniformBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderUniformTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
shaderUniformTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
storageBuffer8BitAccess Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
storagePushConstant8 Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
subgroupBroadcastDynamicId Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
timelineSemaphore Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
uniformAndStorageBuffer8BitAccess Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
uniformBufferStandardLayout Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
vulkanMemoryModel Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
vulkanMemoryModelAvailabilityVisibilityChains Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
vulkanMemoryModelDeviceScope Vulkan 1.2	unsupported to pass
computeFullSubgroups Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
descriptorBindingInlineUniformBlockUpdateAfterBind Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
dynamicRendering Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
inlineUniformBlock Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
maintenance4 Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
pipelineCreationCacheControl Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
privateData Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
robustImageAccess Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
shaderDemoteToHelperInvocation Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
shaderIntegerDotProduct Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
shaderTerminateInvocation Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
shaderZeroInitializeWorkgroupMemory Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
subgroupSizeControl Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
synchronization2 Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass
textureCompressionASTC_HDR Vulkan 1.3	unsupported to pass

Limits that differ (48)

Limit	Stock	Custom
maxImageDimension1D	16384	65536
maxImageDimension2D	16384	65536
maxImageDimension3D	16384	65536
maxImageDimensionCube	16384	65536
maxImageArrayLayers	4096	65536
maxTexelBufferElements	268435456	134217728
maxUniformBufferRange	65536	1048576
maxStorageBufferRange	268435456	4294967295
bufferImageGranularity	4096	64
maxBoundDescriptorSets	4	7
maxPerStageDescriptorSamplers	500000	1048576
maxPerStageDescriptorUniformBuffers	36	1048576
maxPerStageDescriptorStorageBuffers	500000	1048576
maxPerStageDescriptorSampledImages	500000	1048576
maxPerStageDescriptorStorageImages	500000	1048576
maxPerStageResources	500000	5242889
maxDescriptorSetSamplers	500000	1048576
maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffers	216	1048576
maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffersDynamic	32	16
maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffers	500000	1048576
maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffersDynamic	32	8
maxDescriptorSetSampledImages	500000	1048576
maxDescriptorSetStorageImages	500000	1048576
maxVertexInputAttributes	32	16
maxVertexInputBindings	32	16
maxVertexInputAttributeOffset	2047	4294967295
maxVertexInputBindingStride	2048	65535
maxGeometryInputComponents	64	128
maxGeometryOutputVertices	256	1024
maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments	0	8
maxFragmentCombinedOutputResources	1000008	4360
maxComputeWorkGroupCount	4294967295, 4294967295, 4294967295	65535, 65535, 65535
maxDrawIndirectCount	1	65535
maxSamplerLodBias	255	127.996
maxViewports	1	16
minMemoryMapAlignment	64	4096
minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment	64	16
minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment	64	16
subPixelInterpolationOffsetBits	4	8
framebufferNoAttachmentsSampleCounts	29	13
timestampComputeAndGraphics	1	0
timestampPeriod	76.9231	0
maxClipDistances	0	8
maxCullDistances	0	8
maxCombinedClipAndCullDistances	0	8
pointSizeRange	1, 1024	0.125, 4095.94
lineWidthRange	1, 1	0, 7.99219
lineWidthGranularity	0	0.0078125

Formats supported by only one driver (31 gained, 6 lost)

Only in panvk_faux123_rp4pro_v0.14.0:

A1B5G5R5_UNORM_PACK16
A2R10G10B10_SNORM_PACK32
A2R10G10B10_SSCALED_PACK32
A2R10G10B10_USCALED_PACK32
A8_UNORM
B8G8R8A8_SSCALED
B8G8R8A8_USCALED
B8G8R8_SSCALED
B8G8R8_USCALED
BC1_RGBA_SRGB_BLOCK
BC1_RGBA_UNORM_BLOCK
BC1_RGB_SRGB_BLOCK
BC1_RGB_UNORM_BLOCK
BC2_SRGB_BLOCK
BC2_UNORM_BLOCK
BC3_SRGB_BLOCK
BC3_UNORM_BLOCK
BC4_SNORM_BLOCK
BC4_UNORM_BLOCK
BC5_SNORM_BLOCK
BC5_UNORM_BLOCK
BC6H_SFLOAT_BLOCK
BC6H_UFLOAT_BLOCK
BC7_SRGB_BLOCK
BC7_UNORM_BLOCK
G16_B16R16_2PLANE_420_UNORM
G16_B16R16_2PLANE_422_UNORM
G16_B16R16_2PLANE_444_UNORM
G8_B8R8_2PLANE_444_UNORM
R64_SINT
R64_UINT

Only in Mali-G77 MC9:

B5G5R5A1_UNORM_PACK16
B8G8R8G8_422_UNORM
B8G8R8_SNORM
G8B8G8R8_422_UNORM
R4G4_UNORM_PACK8
R5G5B5A1_UNORM_PACK16