Marek Lands Radeon Gallium3D HyperZ Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Marek Lands Radeon Gallium3D HyperZ Improvements

Well known open-source Radeon driver developer Marek Ol??k has landed a number of commits today inside mainline Mesa Git for improving the state of HyperZ for AMD hardware, a feature that remains disabled by default for the open-source Radeon Linux driver due to stability and artifact issues...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc3ODM

[halfmanhalfamazing]

AMD haters gonna hate

Great news Marek!

This open source driver is fantastic, all the haters are wrong. I have no illusions that the OSS driver isn't missing pieces, but in terms of long term support the OSS is head and shoulders way above Catalyst.

[edoantonioco]

This is good news. Those graphics cards are still away from their real potential, but slowly getting closer.

[dungeon]

I don't know how this driver can be better more , now performance in Xonotic is the same as in Windows

[Drago]

I don't know how this driver can be better more , now performance in Xonotic is the same as in Windows

Any numbers and other tests appreciated. Maybe Unigine, or Portal numbers? Thanks.

[dungeon]

Any numbers and other tests appreciated. Maybe Unigine, or Portal numbers? Thanks.

Unigine Valley is at 80% when compared with Windows Catalyst, but remember this is on low powered Kabini 10.5 vs 12.9fps tiny numbers for both , so don't know what will happen on powerfull cards... btw. 81.4% to be exact

[Drago]

Unigine Valley is at 80% when compared with Windows Catalyst, but remember this is on low powered Kabini 10.5 vs 12.9fps tiny numbers for both , so don't know what will happen on powerfull cards... btw. 81.4% to be exact

Is it DirectX on windows?

[oibaf]

Remaining HyperZ bugs are here.

[dungeon]

Is it DirectX on windows?

No, of course i testing only OpenGL performance on both.

Remaining HyperZ bugs are here.

Yep r600 have some artifacts still, but radeonsi seems not .

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74863

[Drago]

No, of course i testing only OpenGL performance on both.

Okay Catalyst OpenGL implementation is not perfect (like Nvidia's). What is the difference between Windows OpenGL vs. Windows DirectX. What I am wanthing to know how far Mesa is from the teoretical peak performance for the card. Thanks for doing this.