Radeon Gallium3D Can Beat AMD's Catalyst In Select Workloads

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Radeon Gallium3D Can Beat AMD's Catalyst In Select Workloads: For seeing how far the open-source ATI/AMD Linux graphics driver has advanced, in this article are benchmarks from a vintage Radeon X1800XT (R520) graphics card when it's tested on a Catalyst Linux graphics driver from five years ago. The Ubuntu Linux releases every year going back to 2010 were then tested for reference to see how the open-source graphics driver matured just in the past three years. Here are the results in this article from the extensive round of testing.