Appendix D: W5700X Vulkan Validation

The W5700X has been validated with trueno’s wgpu backend on Metal (macOS) with documented performance numbers (trueno book, 2026-01-03). The intel box runs Linux, so the backend will be Vulkan (not Metal). Vulkan support for RDNA 1 on Linux via Mesa RADV is mature and well-tested.

Action item: Run trueno GPU tests on intel via Vulkan to confirm parity with Metal benchmarks before relying on W5700X for compute tasks.