Catalyst vs. Mesa Performance With Ubuntu 10.04

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 29 March 2010 at 02:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 6. 39 Comments.

Running the ioquake3-powered OpenArena game the frame-rate for Catalyst 10.4 was more than 300 frames per second while with Mesa 7.7 it averaged out to 57 FPS and its peak was at 82 FPS when at 800 x 600. When running OpenArena and the other ioquake3-era games, the CPU is the bottleneck for the performance with AMD's proprietary ATI driver.

Again, World of Padman exhibited that the Radeon DRI driver is no performance match for the current Catalyst release.

Tremulous is certainly CPU bottlenecked with the Catalyst driver, but again there's not much to say besides the Catalyst driver being more than five times faster than the current open-source driver.


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