AMD Catalyst 2013 Linux Graphics Driver Year-In-Review

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 23 December 2013 at 03:30 AM EST. Page 7 of 9. 20 Comments.

Now onto some AMD Catalyst Linux OpenCL compute benchmarks...

AMD Radeon 2013 Catalyst Linux

The OpenCL Myocyte kernel in Rodinia regressed heavily in Catalyst 13.4 but is on the road to recovery with Catalyst 13.11. However, the 13.11 driver performance is still multiple times worse than in Catalyst 13.1.

AMD Radeon 2013 Catalyst Linux
AMD Radeon 2013 Catalyst Linux

Other OpenCL workloads that didn't regress in 13.4 are running nicely on the latest AMD Linux driver release.

AMD Radeon 2013 Catalyst Linux

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