(09-01-2019, 04:35 AM)bomblord Wrote: Updated to a new version of the Sakaki Gentoo 64 (1.5.1) and I'm getting noticeably smoother performance in just about everything. The update also fixed the garbled audio I was getting when running Dolphin.
It's probably the PulseAudio fix. I hadn't encountered audio problems probably because I've been using ALSA.
Some YouTube commenter pointed wrote that EXT_buffer_storage only matters for performance on GPUs with their own VRAM. Dolphin devs, is there any truth to this? If so, that wouldn't be consistent with how you guys pushed hard for support on Mali over the years.
V3D has its own L2 caches, so I imagine at the very least this extension would free up the driver from doing some unnecessary cache invalidations. Anyhow, it would be nice to get a rough idea of the expected benefit.
Without EXT_buffer_storage, another route is to eventually have Vulkan support. So far I haven't been able to tell if GLES or Vulkan gets a better framerate on my Android phones. For the Pi 4, in theory would Vulkan get us to around the same place performance-wise as EXT_buffer_storage + GLES 3.2, or could it be noticeably better?