The May 2012 Open-Source Radeon Graphics Showdown

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 21 May 2012 at 02:38 AM EDT. Page 8 of 10. 46 Comments.
AMD Radeon Linux Graphics May 2012

For the open-source Warsow game, the Catalyst driver is easily six to eight times (or more) faster than the open-source Radeon Linux driver code. Even with a Radeon HD 6770/6870, this Qfusion engine based game was not playable at 1920 x 1080 in the tested open-source Linux driver configurations.


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