Early Radeon DRM-Next Tests Ahead Of Linux 4.7, Mesa 11.3: Many Improvements, One Card Falls

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Early Radeon DRM-Next Tests Ahead Of Linux 4.7, Mesa 11.3: Many Improvements, One Card Falls

With the AMDGPU and Radeon changes all settled down for what's proposed for Linux 4.7, this weekend I'm benchmarking both of these open-source AMD Linux Direct Rendering Manager drivers. First up is the Radeon DRM driver with various OpenGL benchmarks in conjunction with Mesa 11.3-devel.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=23178

[Linuxhippy]

The quality the open-source AMD drivers have reached is really impressive, especially considering the rough start GCN had on linux.
Thanks and keep up the good work!

[rabcor]

Curious how it's like the 290 was dropped off a cliff...

[Azrael5]

a simple questione: I own an hd3850 glxinfo shows I've opengl core as 3.3 level why the same information list issue that opengl versionis 3.0? thanks.

[eydee]

Can confirm that Infinite + Mesa + r600 doesn't work for me either. Still couldn't figure out which of these components has the issue. It worked with older Mesa versions and it still works with fglrx, but fglrx requires old kernel and old xorg, so it isn't a viable option these days.

[ernstp]

Bisect! :-D

[Klassic Six]

Why R9 290 drop so low? Michael can compare these with R9 285 and FGLRX?

[Norway]

My suspicion with the r9 290 being low would be DPM not working as intended.

[prazola]

My suspicion with the r9 290 being low would be DPM not working as intended.

I agree with that, maybe 290 profiles are missing.

Michael do you have a log with gpu frenquecies/gpusage/powerconsumption? It should be ez to check if the card is not running at 3d frequencies.

[theriddick]

This kinda confirms whats been happening with 290/390 hardware, AMD is just not paying attention to the regression so I doubt they will have it performing on par with NVIDIA any time soon (could take them years).