AMD Radeon Gallium3D More Competitive With Catalyst On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 17 April 2013 at 02:06 PM EDT. Page 5 of 7. 48 Comments.
AMD Linux GPU Driver Benchmarks (April 2013)

When running the Reaction Quake 3 game, the Catalyst driver on Linux was many times faster than the open-source driver.

AMD Linux GPU Driver Benchmarks (April 2013)

Meanwhile, for Smokin' Guns that is based upon Reaction Quake 3 but is less visually demanding, the performance appeared to be more CPU bottlenecked, but the Gallium3D driver was about ~75% that of Catalyst.

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