AMD Fusion On Gallium3D Leaves A Lot To Be Desired

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 16 April 2012 at 02:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 6. 25 Comments.
AMD A8 Fusion APU Linux Catalyst Gallium3D

The older OpenArena 0.8.5, without GLSL, was over three times faster at all tested resolutions with the Catalyst driver than what the R600 Gallium3D could deliver.

AMD A8 Fusion APU Linux Catalyst Gallium3D

With the new OpenArena 0.8.8, which vastly ups the visual image quality and other engine improvements for this ioquake3-based game, the A8-3870K on the Catalyst driver was more than twice as fast.

AMD A8 Fusion APU Linux Catalyst Gallium3D

The ioquake3-powered Reaction game was about 9x faster with Catalyst.


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