Radeon RX 550: AMDGPU-PRO vs. DRM-Next + Mesa 17.2-dev

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 7 May 2017 at 08:37 AM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 34 Comments.
Radeon RX 550 Linux Testing

Similar to what we've been seeing on other AMD hardware, the pure open-source driver stack can be much faster than AMDGPU-PRO.

Radeon RX 550 Linux Testing

On this Polaris 12 GPU, the margins by which the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver was beating AMDGPU-PRO was somewhat surprising.

Radeon RX 550 Linux Testing
Radeon RX 550 Linux Testing
Radeon RX 550 Linux Testing

Perhaps the AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 RX 550 support is just in bad shape? Whatever the case, great to see how well the open driver is performing. If it's a matter of tuning or early enablement bugs with AMDGPU-PRO, that's a pity considering how infrequent AMD releases AMDGPU-PRO Linux drivers.


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