Radeon Gallium3D Improvements Compared To Legacy Catalyst

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 7 November 2013 at 11:24 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 33 Comments.
Ubuntu 12.10 vs. 13.10 AMD Radeon Drivers
Ubuntu 12.10 vs. 13.10 AMD Radeon Drivers

The Daemon-powered Unvanquished game is much faster with the Ubuntu 13.10 drivers than the open-source state one year ago with Ubuntu 12.10, but the Catalyst blob was still faster.

Ubuntu 12.10 vs. 13.10 AMD Radeon Drivers

Warsow was about three times faster than the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver from one year ago, but the Catalyst driver was still more than 100 frames faster -- or 2.47x.

Ubuntu 12.10 vs. 13.10 AMD Radeon Drivers

Xonotic with low quality settings showed just how much faster the Radeon HD 4870 graphics card was made over the past year with the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver, but Catalyst for this high-end HD 4000 series GPU was 93% faster.


Related Articles