Testing 60+ Intel/AMD/NVIDIA GPUs On Linux With Open-Source Drivers

[Michael]

please don't use popups for ads on Phoronix.com - that's f*cking awful.

What pop-ups are you referring to? If it's a physical window, that's not intended, so please report the URL. If it's a "welcome screen" ad overlay, that is acceptable, since it yields around 20x the revenue PER IMPRESSION of a normal ad.

[birdie]

please don't use AdBlock for Phoronix.com.

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[xeekei]

For some reason I have an itch to buy a Radeon HD 6870 right now. Even just to play with.

[nilssab]

"Overall though, in the past ten years the open-source drivers have advanced a heck of a lot... "

yeah, no joke, it's insane..

I made made a naive approximation of % implemented of the OpenGL standard based on the amount of lines in GL3.txt are marked as DONE.



Note that the people working on mesa drivers have gotten from sub 20% implementation with OpenGL4.0 as a target (16 of 85 extensions), to almost 75% towards OpenGL4.4 today (102 of 137 extension), in just 4 years! I guess we can thank intel to a large extent for that, but save for that pretty much without any help.. So that's quite an achievement!

It seems some people think like: "The open source drivers are *not even working*", they really have to revise their expectations..

If we are lucky we might see a feature complete mesa within 2 years, if OpenGL4.5 or something doesn't increase the target again, and after that optimization and working towards beating the closed drivers Or at least that is what I hope to see.

[Pontostroy]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...%3A42%3A33.png

As you can see, the results are quiet different. You data shows a total points of 114 while mine is over 500. A difference of a few points is understandable but >4x difference suggests there's something wrong with the test. I have also noticed under separate articles where you have mentioned that this card gets around 10 FPS in Xonotic under high settings while I always seem to get above 40FPS. Ultra crashes though.

With kernel 3.15\3.16 and mesa-git your result must be much higer. My bonaire (hd 7790) - 1659 (27 fps)

[dungeon]

IIRC the 260x needs an updated firmware, Michael probably wasn't using it.

Those firmwares landed yesterday in linux-firmware and here in Debian Sid as package too .

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firm...3T224907Z.html

[Spittie]

Hi Michael,

First of all, bravo on publishing such a comprehensive benchmarking article. I don't thing anyone, even on the windows side, does this.

I currently have a MSI R7 260X which I bought in January. It was a bumpy ride initially but since the past few months I am really impressed with this GPU. My setup is Ubuntu 14.04 with stock Mesa and an updated kernel. I have seen a bunch of your articles in which your numbers for this card don't seem to match with mine. Here are the results of my furmark running at 1920x1080

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...%3A42%3A33.png

As you can see, the results are quiet different. You data shows a total points of 114 while mine is over 500. A difference of a few points is understandable but >4x difference suggests there's something wrong with the test. I have also noticed under separate articles where you have mentioned that this card gets around 10 FPS in Xonotic under high settings while I always seem to get above 40FPS. Ultra crashes though.

IIRC the 260x needs an updated firmware, Michael probably wasn't using it.

[mufasa72]

nouveau now supports reclocking btw: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~darktam...7dab04e76b8742 Retest please

Sadly, this isn't dynamic reclocking - the user needs to set the clock rates.

I cannot express how awesome the box plot graphs are.

[dungeon]

Michael, you should mention that radeon driver have shadows broken . So better avoid benchmarking Unigine Sanctuary, because numbers can be incorrect when you have broken render

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?100327-Catalyst-14-4-Has-Advantages-Over-Linux-3-15-Mesa-10-3-Git&p=418131#post418131

[Kraut]

I'd love to play games on open source GPU, but i don't think it's happening any time soon. May be when Weston will become reality... In a few years.

I use the oss driver on my 7870 in linux. springrts runs fine, tesseract runs fine except for the sky because of one shader that causes crashes by register spilling, and that is still broken. But the performance is very good and way better then I expected.