The May 2012 Open-Source Radeon Graphics Showdown

Published on May 21, 2012
Written by Michael Larabel
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At 1920 x 1080 with low quality settings, tweaking the driver with 2D color tiling and PCI Express 2.0 continues to prove to be a great deal of help for improving the performance. However, while the frame-rates were good and playable, the official Catalyst driver was still more than twice as fast.

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