AMD GPU-PRO Hybrid Linux OpenGL Performance vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 21 March 2016 at 09:40 AM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 77 Comments.

Lastly are the synthetic OpenGL benchmarks via GpuTest.

Ubuntu 16.04 AMD GPU PRO Radeon Graphics Tests
Ubuntu 16.04 AMD GPU PRO Radeon Graphics Tests
Ubuntu 16.04 AMD GPU PRO Radeon Graphics Tests
Ubuntu 16.04 AMD GPU PRO Radeon Graphics Tests
Ubuntu 16.04 AMD GPU PRO Radeon Graphics Tests

The GpuTest results were fairly close.

Overall, these initial OpenGL results on AMD GPU-PRO were fairly close to RadeonSI Gallium3D but in some benchmarks like Unigine and DiRT Showdown, the binary OpenGL driver was already running faster. Again, keeping in mind that AMD has more optimizations in route for their PRO OpenGL driver. Aside from the performance differences, AMD GPU-PRO offers OpenGL 4.5 right now while RadeonSI Gallium3D is at OpenGL 4.1. The PRO stack also has the Vulkan 1.0.5 driver and OpenCL 2.0 compliance. Stay tuned for some OpenCL and Vulkan benchmarks shortly on Phoronix. As always, if you'd like to support this work and see more Linux hardware tests on Phoronix, please consider joining Phoronix Premium.

If looking for some perspective how NVIDIA's Linux driver would roughly compare, see last week's NVIDIA GeForce vs. Radeon/AMDGPU OpenGL Performance On Ubuntu 16.04.

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