Open-Source AMD Radeon Graphics Had A Wonderful 2013

The closed-source GpuTest GL3 benchmark is also a heck of a lot faster with the modern open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver.

These performance improvements shouldn't be too much of a surprise if you've been keeping up with the hundreds of Linux graphics driver articles and news items published on Phoronix in 2013, but overall, the open-source AMD Linux driver is radically much better this year compared to last. Besides much better performance -- where for some Radeon GPUs the OpenGL performance can be almost in line with Catalyst -- there was also the big open-source wins for having Dynamic Power Management and UVD video acceleration arriving in 2013.

What will be in store for the open-source AMD Radeon Linux driver in 2014? Stay tuned to Phoronix to find out! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook; if you appreciate all of this exclusive Linux content found at Phoronix, please subscribe to Phoronix Premium. In case you missed it, besides the NVIDIA and AMD binary driver year-in-review articles, last week I also published the open-source Haswell driver 2013 results.