Radeon DRM GPU Driver Performance: Linux 3.4 To 3.8

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 1 February 2013 at 09:14 AM EST. Page 3 of 4. 26 Comments.
Radeon R600g Linux Kernel DRM

While OpenArena 0.8.5 was made faster by the a-sync DMA support in the Radeon DRM on Linux 3.8, the OpenArena 0.8.8 performance was unchanged by this new kernel.

Radeon R600g Linux Kernel DRM

The World of Padman game is about 15% faster on the Radeon HD 4650 graphics card using the Linux 3.8 kernel compared to any kernel release going back to at least Linux 3.4.

Radeon R600g Linux Kernel DRM

The performance of Prey on the open-source Radeon stack is disappointing and similar to Nexuiz.


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