AMD Gallium3D & Catalyst Drivers Compete Against Windows

[gQuigs]

Only have an open source driver on Linux, and proprietary on Windows.

I'm betting on Ubuntu 14.04 being the last release that supports them* with the Catalyst (non-legacy) driver...

*HD 5000-6000 series

[fuzz]

It would be nice to see OpenCL compared as well...

[smitty3268]

Yes I noticed that as well. I'm VERY impressed with the FOSS drivers, it won't be long at all until they're at peak performance while being a fraction of the size of catalyst.

This test didn't even enable the shader optimizations (r600sb), which i think can make a big difference in some of the more complex tests where it fell behind.

[pandev92]

Ok so good, but on linux, catalyst suck on 2d support, kwin bad , compiz bad..., flash bad...., opengl mplayer output bad...AMD YOU SUCK, come on! solve this issues!

[lequim]

It's quite impressive what Gallium3D drivers are capable of. ATI is probably mantaining the Catalyst drivers just because of the slow (but spectacular) development of Gallium3D. I wish nvidia think the same way as ATI .
P.S: Sorry if it has some mistakes. I'm not english.

[jrch2k8]

Ok so good, but on linux, catalyst suck on 2d support, kwin bad , compiz bad..., flash bad...., opengl mplayer output bad...AMD YOU SUCK, come on! solve this issues!

they are fixing it, is called r600g/RadeonSI

[pandev92]

they are fixing it, is called r600g/RadeonSI

On my apu a8 5600k, it's so slow ..., and I can't watch a fullscren flash without slow fps.

[jrch2k8]

[QUOTE=pandev92;348195]On my apu a8 5600k, it's so slow ..., and I can't watch a fullscren flash without slow fps.[/QUOT

wait for kernel-3.11-rc4 and get mesa stack from git, even my 4350 passive is handling 1920x1080 + 1366x768 dual screen setup with kwin full whistles[raster+gl3.1+advanced vsync] like a freaking boss this days.

btw UVD works very well too even on radeonSI, just get mplayer2+SMplayer2 sit and enjoy awesome

[jrch2k8]

On my apu a8 5600k, it's so slow ..., and I can't watch a fullscren flash without slow fps.

for flash:
"This should be about it... but it actually still didn't work for me. But I found the following fix that miraculously solved it for me: create the file /etc/adobe/mms.cfg, and write in it:
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1"

it do the magic in with r600g/radeonsi with UVD

another solution is use google-chrome with pepper flash, is bastardically faster compared to regular flash

[pandev92]

[QUOTE=jrch2k8;348197]

On my apu a8 5600k, it's so slow ..., and I can't watch a fullscren flash without slow fps.[/QUOT

wait for kernel-3.11-rc4 and get mesa stack from git, even my 4350 passive is handling 1920x1080 + 1366x768 dual screen setup with kwin full whistles[raster+gl3.1+advanced vsync] like a freaking boss this days.

btw UVD works very well too even on radeonSI, just get mplayer2+SMplayer2 sit and enjoy awesome

Mhh and for uvd what I need to do ?
It will run OOB or I need to install a patched mesa, ati etc?