The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Is Running On Linux Right Now

[Deavir]

How come everyone else gets beer and wine while I'm stuck here with water ?

If you or any of the AMD Linux crew ever get to the Cleveland area I will brew up to 10 gallons of whatever beer you want.

[smitty3268]

I'm not sure why anyone would expect anything different.

It's the same driver running on the same GPU (Fury is just a beefed up 285 Tonga GPU). The new memory architecture is nice, but it's the kind of thing that's hidden to drivers - they just see that there's more bandwidth available now, just like Fury has more shader resources than Tonga.

If anything, I'd expect the pre-existing driver limitations that we know are in fglrx to hit this card hardest, since it's the one that would go fastest if the driver would let it.

[dungeon]

On Windows reviewers compare Fury (non X) to GTX 980 (non Ti)... And they mention that Fury is 10% more expensive, but also nearly always faster - let say faster in 90% of situations, so it deserve its higher price.

On Linux, because of software and driver situation (well i think of both nvidia and fglrx drivers, but also of some awfull game ports) i expect at worse Fury to be let say in some cases slower, in some cases in line with GTX 980.

[smitty3268]

On Windows reviewers compare Fury (non X) to GTX 980 (non Ti)... And they mention that Fury is 10% more expensive, but also nearly always faster - let say faster in 90% of situations, so it deserve its higher price.

On Linux, because of software and driver situation (well i think of both nvidia and fglrx drivers, but also of some awfull game ports) i expect at worse Fury to be let say in some cases slower, in some cases in line with GTX 980.

There's a LOT of apps that fglrx is simply capped at around 100fps while NVidia goes up over 200. I don't expect that to change - the 100fps limit in the driver is still going to be there.

The few games where there isn't a cap would be interesting to look at, though.

[dungeon]

Well i am thinking differently there, if fglrx is capped at 100fps then nVidia is capped to 200fps - so to me both are capped, fglrx just earlier. If game XYZ is capped i don't care - game developers should care about that and think before introducing one vendor variabile for the game.

As fglx start to use more profiles recently, i prefer to see performance of those... as i am mostly interested to see hardware performance at his best

[lockheed02]

If you or any of the AMD Linux crew ever get to the Cleveland area I will brew up to 10 gallons of whatever beer you want.

I think I could ship you some original Oktoberfest stone mugs for the crew ...

Lockheed

[nanonyme]

Do you know what is healthy? Water

Just be sure to avoid pure (distilled) water, that stuff kills you through osmosis

[Michael]

Here's my honest assessment:The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Is Currently A Disaster On Linux - http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21943