20-Way Radeon Comparison With Open-Source Graphics For Steam On Linux Gaming

[xeekei]

Nice to see the R9 290 being pretty fast. I guess Hawaii get a great deal of love from the devs, being the flagship and all.

[bridgman]

Nice to see the R9 290 being pretty fast. I guess Hawaii get a great deal of love from the devs, being the flagship and all.

AFAIK in the open source driver the focus so far has been on getting it running, don't think there has been any Hawaii-specific performance work yet. It's just a big fast GPU.

Probably a different story for Catalyst though.

[[Knuckles]]

Still wishing for some DotA2 testing (time demo or something)!

It really stresses the Source engine in a whole different way.

[Michael]

Still wishing for some DotA2 testing (time demo or something)!

It really stresses the Source engine in a whole different way.

Last I tried there were issues in getting a Dota 2 time demo properly recorded / played back compared to other Source games.

[brosis]

So unfortunate for HD6950. It gets beaten constantly by HD6870. Although the market prices are nearly same, its clear that 6950 architecture is heavily underperforming now.

It looks like the best bang for the buck is still HD5850/70 and HD6850/70.

[dungeon]

just currrious, is the fact that 6450 is so slow bug in mesa or is this card really so bad?

That together with 5450 are 64bit bus width cards . Those are not really for mainstream gaming, but casuals shoud work

And yeah hyperz plays big role on those , not sure if it is enabled looks like it is not Numbers looks fine if hyperz is not enabled

[Kivada]

just currrious, is the fact that 6450 is so slow bug in mesa or is this card really so bad?

It's both slow and old. It's one step off of the slowest card of the HD6 era but still only has 64-bit GDDR3. If you are looking for a gaming capable card you will want to limit your search to only GPUs with at least 128-bit GDDR5 so that whatever low end GPU it is ends up not being bottlenecked by it's memory bandwidth. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...eId=1&name=ATI

[Nille]

And now please a comparison with this cards and the fglrx.

[dungeon]

And now please a comparison with this cards and the fglrx.

Is there a way to disable hyperz in fglrx? I remember there was an option in windows catalyst driver... but OK maybe not, that was 10 years ago

[Michael]

And now please a comparison with this cards and the fglrx.

Results from earlier this month largely doing such a comparison with not many Mesa/DRM improvements since.... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...316_good&num=1 And of course the pre-HD5000 hardware not working with Catalyst anymore.