AMD & NVIDIA: Open vs. Closed-Source Driver Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 9 January 2017 at 08:05 AM EST. Page 3 of 4. 27 Comments.
Nouveau AMDGPU Linux 4.10 Mesa 13.1-dev Open vs. Closed Benchmarks

With the Tesseract first person shooter game, AMD's open-source driver performance is clearly better than AMDGPU-PRO for this particular game.

Nouveau AMDGPU Linux 4.10 Mesa 13.1-dev Open vs. Closed Benchmarks

Team Fortress 2 is a lighter and more CPU bound game that works well on both Nouveau and the RadeonSI driver stacks.

Nouveau AMDGPU Linux 4.10 Mesa 13.1-dev Open vs. Closed Benchmarks

The same goes for Xonotic.


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