Radeon R600/RadeonSI Gallium3D Git Code Delivers Performance Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon R600/RadeonSI Gallium3D Git Code Delivers Performance Improvements

It's been several weeks since last publishing any Mesa/LLVM Git benchmarks with AMD Radeon graphics cards so for this weekend article are some fresh OpenGL graphics performance tests when running with Mesa 10.6-devel Git and LLVM 3.7 SVN atop the stable Linux 3.19 kernel.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21509

[curaga]

Nice, I wonder if Cayman got (finally) some TLC or it's just generic optimizations.

[Kemosabe]

AMD A10-7850K:
I cannot feel worse performance than with catalyst (surely you can measure a few framse) but i see less problems like better
wine performance, no graphic glitches in sanctum 2, no cloud flickering in X-Plane and more smaller or gamebreaking issues.
The only thing that does not work are Metro Redux due to OGL 4...
Overall i can recommand radeonsi over catalyst for similar systems from user's perspective.

[eydee]

Nice improvements. I hope once OGL 4.x compliance arrives, Heaven with tessellation will be included in the benchmarks as well.

[Nille]

I cannot feel worse performance than with catalyst

L4D2 is on Linux unplayable and on Windows it runs with playable.

Mobile Radeon HD3650

[schmidtbag]

Hmm these are pretty impressive results. Weird that the 290 was acting weird though - I hope that gets fixed before the driver is officially released.

[SXX⁣]

L4D2 is on Linux unplayable and on Windows it runs with playable.

Mobile Radeon HD3650

If this was using OpenGL then it's would likely crash on startup or freeze in-game as AMD dropped updates for legacy drivers and end of 2012 (latest update marked as September 2013, but there wasn't any changes since April 2013).

For <=4XXX state with open source drivers on Linux is much better than on Windows.

[Kemosabe]

L4D2 is on Linux unplayable and on Windows it runs with playable.

Mobile Radeon HD3650

This ancient card is nothing even near a A10-7850K. And i recommended it for similar systems.
I assume nobody will improve performance for that old cards anymore.

[Nille]

If this was using OpenGL then it's would likely crash on startup or freeze in-game

Why should i use OpenGL if its runs with d3d very well.

For <=4XXX state with open source drivers on Linux is much better than on Windows.

Thats a lie. And i speak from the FOSS driver on Linux compared to the same Application on Windows.

[Nille]

This ancient card is nothing even near a A10-7850K. And i recommended it for similar systems.
I assume nobody will improve performance for that old cards anymore.

And thats now a excuse?