RadeonSI Color Tiling Brings OpenGL Performance Boost

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 3 November 2013 at 08:05 AM EST. Page 2 of 4. 17 Comments.
RadeonSI Color Tiling AMD Linux

The Doom 3 performance was minimally impacted by the enabling of color tiling for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with Mesa 10.0.

RadeonSI Color Tiling AMD Linux

The OpenArena 0.8.5 performance went up by 46% with the simple enabling of the color tiling option for the xf86-video-ati DDX, but the binary Catalyst driver was still 53% faster.

RadeonSI Color Tiling AMD Linux

The performance gains out of the OpenArena 0.8.8 release were similar with the color tiling support, but the Catalyst proprietary driver will continue to reign supreme for the near future.

RadeonSI Color Tiling AMD Linux

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