Intel Arc B580 vs. AMD Radeon RX 9000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series For Llama.cpp Vulkan Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 8 December 2025 at 10:50 AM EST. Page 5 of 5. 11 Comments.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: Qwen3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. RTX 5090 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: Qwen3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 512. RTX 5090 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: Qwen3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 1024. RTX 5090 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: Qwen3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. RTX 5090 was the fastest.

The results overall aren't that different from prior Llama.cpp Vulkan comparisons albeit useful to have data on the fresh drivers under Linux.

GPU Power Consumption Monitoring Overview benchmark with settings of Accumulated GPU Power Consumption Monitoring.
Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Llama.cpp Vulkan December 2025 GPU Comparison. RTX 5090 was the fastest.

Those wishing to go through all of the collected Llama.cpp Vulkan API performance data in full for this AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics card comparison on the latest EOY-2025 Linux drivers can find the data via this result page.

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