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Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements

The Reaction Quake 3 game that's one of the most demanding ioquake3 games has seen an over 40% frame-rate improvement by upgrading to the Linux 3.12 kernel.

The demanding Unvanquished game with a GL3 renderer was 32% faster with the Linux 3.12 kernel.

Warsow was one of the few games that didn't see a Radeon performance boost out of Linux 3.12.