AMDGPU+RadeonSI Is Much Faster Than The Old Proprietary Fglrx Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 31 October 2017 at 11:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 20 Comments.
Ubuntu 14.04 fglrx vs. Ubuntu 16.04 AMDGPU+RadeonSI

ET: Legacy was among the few games not seeing any real change in performance between drivers, but this open-source game is CPU bound anyhow at 1080p.

Ubuntu 14.04 fglrx vs. Ubuntu 16.04 AMDGPU+RadeonSI
Ubuntu 14.04 fglrx vs. Ubuntu 16.04 AMDGPU+RadeonSI

OpenArena meanwhile was of the rare cases showing a performance regression with the newer open-source stack compared to fglrx, but anyhow the frame-rates are still in the hundreds.

Ubuntu 14.04 fglrx vs. Ubuntu 16.04 AMDGPU+RadeonSI

Tesseract was also showing the AMDGPU+RadeonSI stack not living up to the full potential compared to fglrx for the HD 7950 / R9 270X / R9 285, but on the R9 Fury is 17% faster over the past two years.


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