Nouveau With Boost Patches Are Now Competitive To Radeon/AMDGPU With RadeonSI

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 20 April 2016 at 11:18 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 26 Comments.
Nouveau Linux Boost Testing vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D

When the Tesseract resolution increased, the R9 Fury was able to expand its lead over the GTX 780 Ti, but overall these results with Nouveau re-clocking and boosting are much more promising than past open-source NVIDIA vs. AMD comparisons.

Nouveau Linux Boost Testing vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D

With the rather CPU limited Team Fortress 2, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti on Nouveau was beating out the Radeon R9 Fury.

Nouveau Linux Boost Testing vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D

The R9 Fury and R9 290 wound up on top with the demanding Unigine Valley graphics benchmark.

Nouveau Linux Boost Testing vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D
Nouveau Linux Boost Testing vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D

With the Xonotic game benchmarks it was another interesting race with these green graphics cards being much more performant with the experimental Nouveau DRM kernel patches.


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