Early Open-Source Linux Benchmarks Of The AMD Radeon RX 470

[puleglot]

Deferred fences finally landed in git:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=3f100b77f9a80828fbb3651ea013f9dd3913d047

[AdamOne]

Has the Flightgear flightsim communitey offered any help with benchmarking, and what bout Pioneer Space sim?

Think o tha powah!

[dungeon]

I don't care about Metro benchmark perf, that has even hard time to even run as a benchmark

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95329

[chimpy]

It seems like if you want fast performance now (opengl), go with nVidia. If you're looking down the road (vulkan) AMD is faster. But if AMD can gain more performance out of wrapped games (indirectx, eon, wine), which are the majority of ported AAA games, AMD cards would be the all around best choice for Linux gamers.

[dungeon]

Ok, their better than a gtx 960, but it is worse than an 970.

Well, that is jumping around on subject So lets jump, in Dota 2 Vulkan RX 480 is even faster then GTX 980

[Kendji]

Gaming mainley, video rendering and other servers side stuff are more cpu bound. Ok, their better than a gtx 960, but it is worse than an 970. A gtx 970 is currently coming down in price. I might wait and see if I would get an1060 instead, the pricing is pretty close if not the same to an 480 atm here in Finland.

[dungeon]

* Then GTX 960

Missing editing already

[dungeon]

Good enough to buy over nVidia? Currently running an gtx 960, in certain games it outperforms the rx 480.

In which workloads? Here on review, RX 480 is always faster then RX 470

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdgpu-rx480-linux&num=1

[Kendji]

Actually the performance of AMD drivers is really great. The games where nVidia has huge leads are all wrapped games like Bioshock, tomb raider, witcher 2, and the rest.

Good enough to buy over nVidia? Currently running an gtx 960, in certain games it outperforms the rx 480. Would like to buy AMD, considering the companies financial troubles unlike nVidia.

My old ati card had sufficient performance, but had problems rendering 3d textures.

[davcri]

Little off topic, sorry but I was thinking about mobile AMD GPUs: can we expect great open source drivers also for the next GPUs for notebooks ? What about the existing mobile GPUs ?