diff --git a/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKTexture.cpp b/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKTexture.cpp
index 75980ede46..b5ebf2fec3 100644
--- a/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKTexture.cpp
+++ b/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKTexture.cpp
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ namespace vk
 		VkImageAspectFlags flags, vk::data_heap &upload_heap, u32 heap_align, rsx::flags32_t image_setup_flags)
 	{
 		const bool requires_depth_processing = (dst_image->aspect() & VK_IMAGE_ASPECT_STENCIL_BIT) || (format == CELL_GCM_TEXTURE_DEPTH16_FLOAT);
-		rsx::texture_uploader_capabilities caps{ .alignment = heap_align };
+		rsx::texture_uploader_capabilities caps{ .supports_zero_copy = true, .alignment = heap_align };
 		rsx::texture_memory_info opt{};
 		bool check_caps = true;
 
@@ -896,6 +896,15 @@ namespace vk
 		std::vector<std::pair<VkBuffer, u32>> upload_commands;
 		copy_regions.reserve(subresource_layout.size());
 
+#ifndef _WIN32
+		// RADV workaround. Buffer-to-buffer transfers are extremely slow and invoke memmove in vkCmdCopyBuffer.
+		if (const auto vendor = vk::get_driver_vendor();
+			vendor == driver_vendor::RADV)
+		{
+			caps.supports_zero_copy = false;
+		}
+#endif
+
 		for (const rsx::subresource_layout &layout : subresource_layout)
 		{
 			const auto [row_pitch, upload_pitch_in_texel] = calculate_upload_pitch(format, heap_align, dst_image, layout);
@@ -913,7 +922,7 @@ namespace vk
 			{
 				caps.supports_byteswap = (image_linear_size >= 1024);
 				caps.supports_hw_deswizzle = caps.supports_byteswap;
-				caps.supports_zero_copy = caps.supports_byteswap;
+				caps.supports_zero_copy = caps.supports_zero_copy && caps.supports_byteswap;
 				caps.supports_vtc_decoding = false;
 				check_caps = false;
 			}