AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series Open-Source Driver Becomes More Competitive

[smitty3268]

See: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTQxMzY

Since Michael won't provide what everyone wants to see, can somebody here on the forums run the tests on Steam or WINE apps?

Also, YNOR600SB?

[GreatEmerald]

No, tests are always done with it disabled, as can be seen from the system logs.

Huh, then the triangle test result is a bit odd, I thought disabling it improved the results in that test a lot?..

[schmidtbag]

See: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTQxMzY

I can't believe you seriously had to repeat yourself twice on the same page of this thread... shows how much people really pay attention.


Anyways, it's pretty exciting to see these test results. I find it interesting how in terms of GPUserformance, it forms a sort of sine wave, where the very low end cards and the very high-end cards perform the worst. I get the impression the devs focus the most on the mainstream GPUs, since the low-end GPUs aren't good for gaming and if you want your money's worth for the high-end parts, you're better off using catalyst.

[Michael]

more Team Fortress 2 benchmarks please

See: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTQxMzY

[gururise]

Very interesting article. Would be very interested to see how the HD4000 (r600) compares vs. Catalyst. Lots of people are still running HD3000/4000 hardware.

[verde]

more Team Fortress 2 benchmarks please

[crispy]

I don't understand why test target for drivers are decade old shaderless games or opensource relatively light games like Xonotic. Why not Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2?

Yes please, absolutely no reason not to try the source benchmark imo.

[Michael]

I don't understand why test target for drivers are decade old shaderless games or opensource relatively light games like Xonotic. Why not Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2?

See: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTQxMzY

[Michael]

I assume that this is also with SwapBuffersWait. Would be nice if it was disabled in such benchmarks, but ah well.

No, tests are always done with it disabled, as can be seen from the system logs.

[krasnoglaz]

I don't understand why test target for drivers are decade old shaderless games or opensource relatively light games like Xonotic. Why not Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2?