The Performance Benefits To Running AMD's Radeon VII With Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0

The configurations tested were:
Linux 4.20 + Mesa 18.2 - This configuration is notable since Mesa 18.2 is still widely found by some Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu 18.10. Mesa 18.2 is also what AMD is shipping in their Radeon Software 18.50 for Linux packaged driver as part of the "open" stack. Mesa 18.2 is the open-source 3D driver stack from Q3'2018 and while older, it does support the Vega 20 but with not as many optimizations/improvements as found in Mesa 18.3/19.0 for RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL.
Linux 4.20 + Mesa 18.3 - This would be considered the standard, current stable bundle. Linux 4.20. has been out as stable for a while and Mesa 18.3 has been since December. The Mesa packages via Pkppa built against LLVM 7.0 SVN for the current "stable" driver experience.
Linux 4.20 + Mesa 19.0 - The stable Linux 4.20 kernel but upgrading to the Mesa 19.0-devel code in now its release candidate phase. Mesa 19.0 will be released as stable by end of February. The LLVM 8.0 back-end is also in use here, those 3D driver packages via the Padoka PPA.
Linux 5.0 + Mesa 19.0 - The current Git state of the Linux 5.0 kernel and Mesa 19.0. Both Linux 5.0 and Mesa 19.0 will debut as stable around the end of the month. Linux 5.0 and Mesa 19.0 are also what will be found in (or slightly newer) as packaged out-of-the-box for Ubuntu 19.04, Fedora 30, etc.
Also: AMDGPU DC Seeing Work On "Seamless Boot" Functionality
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