AMD Linux Graphics: The Latest Open-Source RadeonSI Driver Moves On To Smacking Catalyst

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 1 September 2015 at 12:10 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 75 Comments.
AMD Open-Source vs. Catalyst Linux Radeon Tests

For the Tesseract open-source game, the RadeonSI performance actually came out ahead for the HD 7950 and R7 370 while the R9 290 performance was just equal to Catalyst.

AMD Open-Source vs. Catalyst Linux Radeon Tests

With Unigine Valley, the RadeonSI Gallium3D performance now exceeded that of Catalyst, but like for the Metro Redux games, there was better rendering quality with AMD's binary blob.

AMD Open-Source vs. Catalyst Linux Radeon Tests
AMD Open-Source vs. Catalyst Linux Radeon Tests

Xonotic offered great performance out of the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver that ended up being superior to the Catalyst Ubuntu 15.04 driver, except for the clock-crippled Radeon R9 285 Tonga.


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