RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets Wired Up For More OpenGL 4.0 Extensions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets Wired Up For More OpenGL 4.0 Extensions

Another set of AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver improvements were committed on Wednesday for Mesa...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTcyMzk

[Imroy]

So how is radionsi compared to the mature r600g? Is it recommended I start looking for a GCN card to replace my lowly (and fanless) 6570?

[Dukenukemx]

Is R600g gonna get left behind with OpenGL 4.0?

[dungeon]

Is R600g gonna get left behind with OpenGL 4.0?

Where did you hear that , no driver currently supports OpenGL 4.0 . GLSL 4.0 not started, GL_ARB_tessellation_shader not started... until those are in the works and then became nearly finished we can't expect OpenGL 4.0 to be soon advertised .

Besides that state, only HD5xxx/HD6xxx hardware supported by r600g driver supports more then OpenGL 3.3 .

[jrch2k8]

Is R600g gonna get left behind with OpenGL 4.0?

no, ofc not but i believe was a low hanging fruit for GCN hardware(aka RadeonSI) and is a lot harder for HD5000+(R600G), so the patches for those cards will come later on. Remeber anything below HD5000 cards only support GL 3.3 so not all card in r600g will support GL 4+

[smitty3268]

Besides that state, only HD5xxx/HD6xxx hardware supported by r600g driver supports more then OpenGL 3.3 .

And most of that doesn't natively support fp64, meaning someone will have to emulate it for r600g to reach 4.0.

[Ancurio]

And the python script is back..

[zanny]

So how is radionsi compared to the mature r600g? Is it recommended I start looking for a GCN card to replace my lowly (and fanless) 6570?

Yea, absolutely. Just avoid the Hawaii parts. Anything in the 265-280x range is really solid. 260x is newer hardware and thus more buggy, usually, but also mostly works. I have a 270x aka 7870 that runs really well.