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New AMD GPU Performance To Be Boosted By Linux 4.5; How It Compares To The Binary Blob
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Did a quick run of the benches with my Fury:
https://openbenchmarking.org/result/...HA-1512234GA60
Not as good as Catalyst, but not as bad as Michaels.
Not sure how comparable the Metro benchmarks are as I don't know the settings of Michaels benches.Last edited by ObiWan; 24 December 2015, 09:04 PM.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostI believe someone working on the OSS drivers has stated here on Phoronix that they do support profiles, even if they don't actually make them. If some submits a profile, they'll merge it (not sure whether there's any validation taking place before merging). So yeah, while it's theoretically possible, there's no activity in that area today.
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Originally posted by humbug View PostYep ideally surpassing catalyst performance should only be the start (considering what the hardware is capable of). But it's still a way to go to match catalyst and some people here actually say it cannot be done without application specific game profiles (not sure if/when these are coming to open source?).
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It is the first time in all of these years I am aboard linux train that I would be really glad if Linus dropped Kernel 4.4 before released and went straight to a 4.5 rc1 version! My Tonga will rev up and I will be able to play games without that Bloody mess called fglrx renamed to catalyst renamed to crimson radeon driver!!
I guess it is easier to change names than hunt bugs in the code and make optimizations so after kernel 4.5 I won't care anymore how they will call that disastrous blob in the future.
And yes the results are very promising, if someone remembered from the old days of r600g when DPM introduced there where many blocker bugs and performance was not at the levels of 50% or more of catalyst and also we have to mention that 3D performance has a lot improved in catalyst too since then, considering that we talk about completely experimental code I am very optimist about AMDGPUs future!
Fiji seems to have problems not only with amdgpu but with catalyst too... Really a pity for such an expensive hardware supporting cutting edge technologies like HBM to perform worse than my Tonga (even with blob sometimes) which costs much less than half the money Fury is...
Good work Michael! Good work AMD OSS team! Thanks guys, happy New Year, health and labour to all of you and to the phoronix forum mates!
Jim, Greece
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Originally posted by rabcor View PostNot too bad, but... Don't we need this driver to actually surpass catalyst so that it can amount to anything? (Considering how catalyst is lagging pretty far behind Nvidia's drivers)
Still we do really appreciate the work that AMD's linux driver team is doing with limited resources. Hopefully with Vulkan the driver teams can stay ahead of the game from the start, without later having to play catch-up to API advancements. Maybe that way there can be more focus on performance?
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Originally posted by FireBurn View Post
There's work going into the Xserver but it'll need to be sorted at the DRM level and ddx too - I think radeon & amdgpu already support fencing and I'm not sure yet if it'll work when using the modesetting driver - I'll comment once things have been merged upstream
Or something like that.
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I am looking forward to the day when I can easily switch between OSS and Proprietary drivers - or even using them on a per application basis (i.e. OSS running the desktop and the binary blobs being used for gaming).
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