AMD's Radeon R9 Fury Showing Some Gains With AMDGPU's DRM-Next 4.12

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD's Radeon R9 Fury Showing Some Gains With AMDGPU's DRM-Next 4.12

On Friday I posted some early AMDGPU benchmarks of the DRM-Next code slated for Linux 4.12 using a Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" graphics card. As some additional reference points, here are some Linux 4.10 vs. 4.11 vs. (4.12; DRM-Next) code with an R9 Fury "Fiji" graphics solution...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=R9-Fury-AMDGPU-4.12-Next

[bwyan]

I recently switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm eager to compare these results with my own system as I am using the same GPU, but I can't seem to get pts installed. I depend on PHP7 for development, but pts version 7.0.0 (available via the Tumbleweed repository) seems to require PHP5 as a dependency. I was under the impression that pts supported PHP7. Michael: Any ideas?

[M@GOid]

Man, by this time next year, the out of the box distro experience in AMD cards will be unbeatable.

[nesnomis]

I recently switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm eager to compare these results with my own system as I am using the same GPU, but I can't seem to get pts installed. I depend on PHP7 for development, but pts version 7.0.0 (available via the Tumbleweed repository) seems to require PHP5 as a dependency. I was under the impression that pts supported PHP7. Michael: Any ideas?

It is easy to install via 1-click, it takes care of dependencies too... https://software.opensuse.org/packag...nix-test-suite

[tomtomme]

I recently switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm eager to compare these results with my own system as I am using the same GPU, but I can't seem to get pts installed. I depend on PHP7 for development, but pts version 7.0.0 (available via the Tumbleweed repository) seems to require PHP5 as a dependency. I was under the impression that pts supported PHP7. Michael: Any ideas?

I am on tumbleweed+fury X as well but with php5.6. Thus I ran the benchmark, see the results here

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...RI-1704020RI98

unfortunately none of the steam based games would launch, due to "The test run did not produce a result."
@Michael: any hint on this error message and how to debug? I cannot find logs.
The steam-games start fine but then just sit idle in the main menu - the actual benchmark does not start...

[bwyan]

It is easy to install via 1-click, it takes care of dependencies too... https://software.opensuse.org/packag...nix-test-suite

Thanks, but the installer highlighted dependency problems because I have php7 installed (which I need in other contexts). Forcefully ignoring the php5 dependencies seemed to work, however.

[leipero]

Man, by this time next year, the out of the box distro experience in AMD cards will be unbeatable.

It already is, but yeah, ti will get even better, gr8 work from those guys.

[vein]

Man, by this time next year, the out of the box distro experience in AMD cards will be unbeatable.

Actually it has already been that way since last summer. My fury cards are the best investment i have ever done...

[humbug]

Actually it has already been that way since last summer. My fury cards are the best investment i have ever done...

yep, I've had my r9 290 for almost 3 years. The difference in the quality of experience i get on Linux today is night and day compared to when I first got this graphics card. LOL I remember I had to choose between laggy 2d performance with the proprietary driver and unusable gaming performance on the open driver. Today everything pretty much just works for me with decent performance with the exception of vulkan. The only issue compared to windows is that it is difficult to stay right up to date on MESA graphics drivers unless you use an Ubuntu based distro.

[vein]

yep, I've had my r9 290 for almost 3 years. The difference in the quality of experience i get on Linux today is night and day compared to when I first got this graphics card. LOL I remember I had to choose between laggy 2d performance with the proprietary driver and unusable gaming performance on the open driver. Today everything pretty much just works for me with decent performance with the exception of vulkan. The only issue compared to windows is that it is difficult to stay right up to date on MESA graphics drivers unless you use an Ubuntu based distro.

Well, if you dont like ubuntu then the different rolling distros seem to do a good job here. I use arch(antergos) and it updates great. And I have heard good things about opensuse tumbleweed too.