More Benchmarks Showing How Gallium3D With RX Vega Smacks AMDGPU-PRO's OpenGL Proprietary Driver

[mphuZ]

I have a suggestion to Michael and others: maybe it's time to raise the bar ?

I mean, that's already clear to everyone that the Pro-driver is behind the open-source.
Can now start to do more tests "Windows (DX11/OGL) vs Linux" and not "Pro vs Open Source" ? You need to set a new bar and achieve it!
Naturally, Pro-drivers can continue to use temporarily during the test of the Vulkan, but how long will it last ?

So I want some survey for the tests "Windows vs Linux". It will be intriguing!

[sheepdestroyer]

Also swr (openswr). It's supposed to scale better with more threads, right?

Also interesting : it should make use of AVX512 (or not yet?) And that would give us an idea of what project Larrabee could have looked like

[haagch]

Oh yes, already been planning on it!

Also swr (openswr). It's supposed to scale better with more threads, right?

[Michael]

You could use it for hosting Phoronix, so the site doesn't slow to a crawl/crash every time AMD releases something.

The latest code updates should fix that for the future.... Phoronix is already running off dual Xeons, OpenBenchmarking.org on another pair of dual Xeons, all in a data center...

[eydee]

I was told a week ago I would end up getting Epyc and Threadripper, though I am still waiting... Hopefully coming soon... Have a 40 core / 80 thread Intel box coming this week that wants some competition.

You could use it for hosting Phoronix, so the site doesn't slow to a crawl/crash every time AMD releases something.

[valeriodean]

Mmmm Vega will be a perfect match for my system. When the display code get merged it will be a great buy.

Indeed. Anyway, WOW. The open driver humiliated the closed one so badly. :-)

[Khudsa]

Mmmm Vega will be a perfect match for my system. When the display code get merged it will be a great buy.

[ElectricPrism]

Seeing "DISK" in the Phoronix Terminal feels archaic.

Like what year is it where data is stored on circular flat media

[Adarion]

I just read the article on Vega 56 on semiaccurate. They mentioned that multi monitor setup power consumption dropped very nicely. That's another interesting point to the Vega hardware.

https://semiaccurate.com/2017/08/14/amds-radeon-rx-vega-56-review/

[Shevchen]

Phoronix is kinda well known on the other hardware-sites, so people do know that the Linux drivers are in very good shape and people start looking at Linux, with some peeps here and there trying it out. Of course, the relative number of people using Linux will stay rather low, but it helps.

Funny how Vega performs so well in Phoronix benchmarks (also Blender etc), but most gaming sites are complaining how bigly the release failed. Apparently the gamers aren't pairing Threadrippers with Vega and perhaps 64 to 128 GB of RAM.

Threadripper sees a pretty hefty dependency on optimized games. Well written ones that can be called a "tech demo" like AotS profit from more cores, poorly optimized ones like GTA V suffer from it.

The difference in performance between games has become pretty huge - even between AAA games. As it stands, it looks pretty good for games optimized for "many" cores coupled with async compute and all the fancy stuff AMD talked about.

The disadvantage of this is, that the gaming industry needs to hire more engine-coding guys in order to take advantage of all the new tech - and we kind of know how happy the industry is about that. (looking at you Ubisoft and EA)

Hopefully, Bethesda will kickstart a new optimization cycle in the AAA-industry.

In any case: Great results. I'm eagerly awaiting 1080 Ti performance of the RX Vega on Linux. Once that hits, its time for me to buy a new (Freesync) monitor.