AMD Catalyst On Windows vs. Open-Source Radeon On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 12 November 2015 at 11:30 AM EST. Page 2 of 3. 29 Comments.
Windows 10 Catalyst vs. AMD Ubuntu Open-Source

The old, defunct Nexuiz game actually runs faster on Linux with the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver stack than Catalyst 15.11 Beta on Windows 10.

Windows 10 Catalyst vs. AMD Ubuntu Open-Source
Windows 10 Catalyst vs. AMD Ubuntu Open-Source

However, with the basic OpenArena 0.8.8 game, Windows 10 and the binary blob was faster than the pure open-source stack on Ubuntu.

Windows 10 Catalyst vs. AMD Ubuntu Open-Source
Windows 10 Catalyst vs. AMD Ubuntu Open-Source

Unigine Heaven, one of the most demanding Linux OpenGL test cases, was significantly slower for the two tested AMD GCN graphics cards at both 1080p and 4K.


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