RadeonSI Color Tiling Brings OpenGL Performance Boost

[HD7950]

whats the needed entries for the xorg.conf to enable tiling? when will it be enabled by default?

Section "Device" 
   Option   "ColorTiling"      "on" 
   Option   "ColorTiling2D"    "on" 
EndSection

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i tiling

[  1684.537] (**) RADEON(0): Option "ColorTiling" "on"
[  1684.537] (**) RADEON(0): Option "ColorTiling2D" "on"
[  1684.583] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: enabled
[  1684.583] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling 2D: enabled

And of course, mesa from git.

[darkbasic]

The linux catalyst driver is about 85%-95% the performance of the windows driver.

Are you kidding me? It's 30% except a few games. Try playing Serious Sam 3 or Painkiller Hell and Damnation.

[przemoli]

Are you kidding me? It's 30% except a few games. Try playing Serious Sam 3 or Painkiller Hell and Damnation.

SS3 should benefit from 3.12 changes to ondemand governor.

Can You recheck FPS with it?

[tomtomme]

xorg.conf needed?

for me its
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i tilingonf-3.12.0-3-desktop
[ 7.790] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: enabled
[ 7.790] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling 2D: enabled

even without having a xorg.conf - so it already seems to be enabled by default at least since today and for my HD 7950 - nice!

[duby229]

Are you kidding me? It's 30% except a few games. Try playing Serious Sam 3 or Painkiller Hell and Damnation.

I'm not talking about the OSS driver. I specifically said catalyst.

[darkbasic]

SS3 should benefit from 3.12 changes to ondemand governor.

Can You recheck FPS with it?

I'm already using 3.12 of course.

I'm not talking about the OSS driver. I specifically said catalyst.

And I was speaking about Catalyst too. Catalyst on linux sucks.

[duby229]

I'm already using 3.12 of course.



And I was speaking about Catalyst too. Catalyst on linux sucks.

Performance wise it isnt -that- bad. Like I said 85-95 percent. Stability wise it is horrible.

[darkbasic]

Performance wise it isnt -that- bad.

No it isn't. These games are just unplayable in linux while they are just perfect in Windows. Nvidia drivers are much, much more optimized. Painkiller doesn't even start with Catalyst while it works with radeon