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Radeon RX 480: RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. AMDGPU-PRO - Interesting CPU/Power Difference
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Please keep up with this benchmarking on the new 4.7 rc's. This is the most interesting part of AMD's tech. A driver that works as good as or better kernel native is a huge deal. Thanks
Btw, the 4 GB RX 480 being sold in Europe has been found to have 8 GB memory, with it disabled in the BIOS!
Last edited by ThoreauHD; 04 July 2016, 09:51 PM.
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Thanks for keeping me updated regarding this issue. I'm a huge fan of Arch Linux though. I'm a software developer so it's my gaming and developing rig. I don't wanna have a dual Linux and Windows triple boot. So much about that. Also I'm not a fan of PPAs - one reason I switched from Xubuntu to Arch in the past.
So amdgpu is loaded as the kernel driver while radeonsi remains on the xorg side. Does it mean if I get the latest Mesa + Kernel 4.19 that radv will be working as well as I could make use of the latest performance improvements?
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Originally posted by cRaZy-bisCuiT View PostSo amdgpu is loaded as the kernel driver while radeonsi remains on the xorg side. Does it mean if I get the latest Mesa + Kernel 4.19 that radv will be working as well as I could make use of the latest performance improvements?
The libdrm component is the userspace wrapper for the kernel graphics driver - drivers/radeonsi (a Gallium3D pipe driver) calls winsys/amdgpu, which in turn calls into libdrm-amdgpu to access kernel driver functionality.
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I see, thank you! It seems like the mesa-git AUR package [0] includes libdrm. I'm good to go like that?
[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mesa-git/
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My impression from the link is that mesa-git doesn't include libdrm directly but has it as a dependency so a separate package with libdrm would be pulled in as well.
If that matches your understanding then I think you should be good to go.Test signature
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