Vulkan is added to rainbow six siege with good performance improvements

Rainbow Six Siege has been one of Ubisoft's biggest successes in this generation, and frequent updates have helped keep the player base active since 2015. Now, a new update is adding support for a new graphical API, Vulkan.

Vulkan performs better than DirectX 11 in Rainbow Six Siege

With update 4.3, PC gamers will have the opportunity to test Rainbow Six: Siege with the Khronos Group's Vulkan API, which adds several new features to the game and promises better performance on a wide range of PC hardware.

The OC3D people have shared a comparison of the game's performance working with the new Vulkan API on different graphics cards. The performance obtained in DirectX 11 is also added.

The comparison was made in 1080p with an Intel Core i7-6850K, 32GB of RAM @ 3200 MHz and the ASUS X99 Strix motherboard.

Performance comparison

At 1080p, we can see that the impact of Vulkan is mostly positive, although some graphics architectures clearly benefit more from the change than others. Although the differences are not huge between both APIs, Vulkan performs better than DirectX 11 without any discussion in Rainbow Six Siege. Perhaps the architecture that benefits the most from this is AMD. The RX 5700 XT improves by approximately 5% using Vulkan, The improvement with the Vega 56 GPU is also notorious, going from 142 to 169 fps.

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On the Nvidia side, the RTX and GTX Turing graphics cards managed to significantly increase performance, offering notable improvements in both mid and low frames.

In this way, for regular Rainbow Six Siege players, it is best to choose this API in the graphical settings of the game to have an extra 'boost' of performance.

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