AMD Catalyst vs. X.Org Radeon Driver 2D Performance

Published on January 18, 2009
Written by Michael Larabel
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With the GtkCheckButton, GtkRadioButton, and GtkTextView - Scroll tests, the Catalyst driver remained in front and was showing a slightly stronger position over the open-source ATI driver. To reiterate, each driver was left in its stock configuration with no extra xorg.conf options being set or AMDPCSDB options being assigned.

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