AMD Catalyst vs. Linux 3.7 + Mesa 9.1-devel Gallium3D Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 26 November 2012 at 01:52 PM EST. Page 4 of 6. 34 Comments.
AMD Catalyst Radeon Linux 3.7 + Mesa 9.1-devel

Urban Terror has seen some improvements with the latest Git code that finally lift it to around 50% the speed of the Catalyst driver for the Radeon HD 5000/6000 series graphics cards.

AMD Catalyst Radeon Linux 3.7 + Mesa 9.1-devel

There are some performance improvements to be found in the newest Radeon Git code for the VDrift racing game. Unfortunately, though, the open-source drivers still render some of the GL shaders incorrectly so its performance wasn't compared to Catalyst.

AMD Catalyst Radeon Linux 3.7 + Mesa 9.1-devel

Warsow experienced some very significant performance boosts on the mid and high-end Radeon HD 5000/6000 series graphics cards that were benchmarked.


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