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Originally posted by Weegee View PostAnd now do the same with a HD7970 or a R9 290X using games like Serious Sam 3, DOTA 2 or Left 4 Dead 2.
I think everyone knows that the driver for the 4000 to 6000 series cards is wonderful and that there's no real reason to not use it over Catalyst. The situation for newer cards (and thus for gamers who bought their AMD card after 2011 and want to switch to Linux) is still dire if you don't use Catalyst (and Catalyst is dire itself).
I'm so happy that I was able to replace Catalyst with the open source driver on my laptop which runs the latest Mesa git snapshots and 3.12-rc7 right now, but it also has a Mobility Radeon HD5650 - I don't think I would've done that if I had an actual up-to-date GPU.
So yeah ... keep up the good work AMD, but please, start focusing on newer GPUs as well. I don't think recommending a 6870 for playing games on Linux sounds that nice, especially if everyone else already shouts "use NVIDIA on Linux only".
Run those two drivers using ANSYS 14, COMSOL 4.6, etc. Then talk.
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Originally posted by dffx View PostI actually play Dota2 and L4D2 on my 7970M using the latest radeonsi git pulls with no problem.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostAFAIK there aren't any secrets being held back which would cause a performance difference, so presumably it's just a matter of driver/compiler optimization ie a matter of time.
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Originally posted by _SXX_ View PostStill really interesting if there any chance for any improvements for 6950.
bridgman, can you comment on this please?
What I can say is that AFAIK there aren't any secrets being held back which would cause a performance difference, so presumably it's just a matter of driver/compiler optimization ie a matter of time. It would be interesting to see if the same performance delta exists with the VLIW4 APUs (Trinity and Richland) relative to the VLIW5 Llano.Last edited by bridgman; 31 October 2013, 01:31 AM.
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Originally posted by Weegee View PostAnd now do the same with a HD7970 or a R9 290X using games like Serious Sam 3, DOTA 2 or Left 4 Dead 2.
There *is* room for improvement -- these certainly don't run as fast as they do on Windows, at least at the current stage of radeonsi development -- and I'd love to see performance improved upon further, but at this time everything is entirely playable at high settings.
Radeonsi/Mesa/Gallium3D works wonders with Wine, as well. I've been re-playing Arkham City (since they stripped out GFWL and released the GOTY edition) through Wine and it's worked pretty much flawlessly.
I'm incredibly happy with radeonsi/Mesa right now.
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostBig corporations are part of FLOSS? Wasn't that the part that you people wanted to avoid? Corporations controlling 99.99% of the code, even if it's open source?
If that was the point of FLOSS, the licenses would prohibit corporations from doing anything with OSS code. Instead, they encourage corporations to contribute. That's sort of the point of doing everything in the open, to get multiple corporations to all work together and benefit from the same codebase. And let individuals do so as well, of course.
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Originally posted by 3coma3 View PostAs much as I hate BO$$, I have to admit to myself he's got a fucking point right there. I use FLOSS almost exclusively everywhere since years, and to my eyes things are going to (corporate) hell. But hey, tinfoil hat and all that shit, please continue.
He missed the glaringly bright "big picture" entirely.
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