RadeonSI Lands Another "Very Large" Optimization To Further Boost SPECViewPerf

[smitty3268]

Important context:

This is a hack for the specviewperf benchmark only. You have to manually enable the option on a per-application basis to use it since it's non-compliant with the OpenGL spec.

I'm not sure how i really feel about such things going into the driver, but I guess I understand why it's done.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Lands Another "Very Large" Optimization To Further Boost SPECViewPerf

In recent months we have seen a lot of RadeonSI optimizations focused on SPECViewPerf with AMD seemingly trying to get this open-source OpenGL driver into very capable shape moving forward for workstation GL workloads. Hitting Mesa 22.0-devel today is yet another round of patches for tuning SPECViewPerf...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RadeonSI-Continues-Tuning-SPEC