AMD A10-7870K Godavari: RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Linux Drivers

Xonotic is one of the most popular open-source first person shooters and for this testing the A10-7870K performance on the open-source Gallium3D driver was certainly playable at 1080p. However, for those wanting maximum performance, the Catalyst driver remained much faster.

Lastly are some of the synthetic OpenGL tests via GpuTest. Catalyst was faster across the board in this A10-7870K driver comparison (sans the binary blob failing with Sanctuary) as is largely expected, but at least the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver yielded mostly playable results at 1080p in the various open-source Linux OpenGL games tested. Going forward with the work on Mesa 10.7 and LLVM 3.7, there will hopefully be more performance improvements to report in the near future. This AMD A10-7870K system is being benchmarked with the latest Fedora 22 packages and daily Rawhide no-debug kernel that closely follows the mainline Linux kernel Git on a daily basis now over at LinuxBenchmarking.com.