R600g+SI Dota 2 Benchmarks With Mesa 11.2, Linux 4.5 Show Open Driver Progress

[Dukenukemx]

It's been well known that DOTA2 likes Open Source drivers.

[Michael]

hmm, Can't wait to hear more about this discovery!

Tests still churning... Hope to have up that next article within a few hours.

[duby229]

At 4K, only the R9 290 and R9 Fury were scoring well with Dota 2.

Then I was doing a second run later on with the system monitoring results with the GCN GPUs at 4K and I noticed something...

hmm, Can't wait to hear more about this discovery!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: R600g+SI Dota 2 Benchmarks With Mesa 11.2, Linux 4.5 Show Open Driver Progress

With now having a workaround for Dota 2 for my benchmarking needs, here are some benchmarks finally of this popular multiplayer online battle arena under Linux when using the R600g and RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers with the latest Linux 4.5 and Mesa 11.2 components...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dota2-Mesa112-Linux45