AMD Catalyst 14.4 Brings Few Linux Performance Improvements

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 23 April 2014 at 03:20 PM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 15 Comments.
Catalyst 4.4 Linux OpenGL Testing

With Valve's Portal game, the performance appeared unchanged with the Catalyst Linux driver upgrade.

Catalyst 4.4 Linux OpenGL Testing
Catalyst 4.4 Linux OpenGL Testing

The Unigine Heaven performance went unchanged with the new driver release but for Unigine Tropics the frame-rates were slightly higher with the newer graphics driver.

Catalyst 4.4 Linux OpenGL Testing

With Valley, the performance was unchanged in going from fglrx 13.35.5 to fglrx 14.10.2.


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