Radeon Software Crimson Edition Will Reportedly Offer Better Linux Performance

[bluedragon777]

Basically... what's the point in keeping the proprietary driver around instead of phasing it out and improving the open-source driver?

Not everyone is intel.

Is there any chance that the new AMDGPU drivers also be supported on my HD 6490?

[mike4]

The AI port was done by a Mac company. MAC's are multicore and the test was on a dualcore! Even the specs say minimum a i3. A i3 can use 4 cores but a dualcore only two. Looking at AI it uses all 8 cores of my i7 on Ubuntu and never falls below 100fps.

[kuco]

Short Story:
Playing Heroes of the storm on a 6870 with gallium9. Today tried the game on my Windows partition with catalyst. Got exactly the same framerate. Was very impressed by open source drivers/wine/gallium9.

[pal666]

Empire is obviously not being targeted for a 155% increase (as it is heavily CPU bound and ancient).

someone has to tell you that driver runs on cpu
and it is not 155% increase it is 155% result. increase is 55%

[pal666]

Or is there other reasons where Catalyst/fglrx excels that isn't performance (and can't those same reasons also be improved on open-source)?

it is opengl support. it is being improved on open-source for last ears

[Kano]

It would be an improvement for AMD if they could make the Fiji cards faster than the older models on Linux.

[silakka]

Hope they fix the bug i've been having. In desktop use, like browsing internet, GPU usage would go to 100%, mouse movement would stutter and fans start screaming.

Radeonsi doesn't have it, but performance is crap :/

[Kemosabe]

Hope they fix the bug i've been having. In desktop use, like browsing internet, GPU usage would go to 100%, mouse movement would stutter and fans start screaming.

Radeonsi doesn't have it, but performance is crap :/ .

My experience with plasma: After a while (2 days uptime) performance drops, everythings stutters all animations are slideshows. Restarting plasma helps.
Does not happen with catalyst. (But with intel too btw.)

[dungeon]

Any leakage of Linux driver? Windows users already got some beta7 Crimson

OK no embargo, should be released now

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/a...river-overview

OK released for Linux too now, on AMD site

Xonotic has profile now, even GPUTest Oh, sdl xonotic is missing that one phoronix benchmark now