Running The AMD Radeon R9 Fury With AMD's New Open-Source Linux Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 30 August 2015 at 12:09 PM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 25 Comments.

With the AMD Fury open-source driver support only exposing OpenGL 3.0 support, not all of the demanding Linux OpenGL benchmarks could be run... However, as I first ran tests on the other graphics cards prior to loading in the Fiji graphics card and learning of this limitation, I have a few extra benchmark results just for those interested in how the performance compares for some extra workloads.

AMD Open-Source Linux R9 Fury Radeon Tests
AMD Open-Source Linux R9 Fury Radeon Tests

With Mesa 11.0, the Metro Redux games can finally run on the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver due to having all the necessary OpenGL 4 extensions.

AMD Open-Source Linux R9 Fury Radeon Tests

It's with OpenArena where the R9 Fury would often cause the "out of range" issues with the monitor going dark.

AMD Open-Source Linux R9 Fury Radeon Tests
AMD Open-Source Linux R9 Fury Radeon Tests

Lastly, the demanding Unigine Linux benchmarks.


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