AMD Kaveri: Open-Source Radeon Gallium3D vs. Catalyst 14.12 Omega Driver

With Unigine Tropics there still was no benefit out of the AMD Omega driver for the A10-7850K in our test configuration. Catalyst was 44% faster than Linux 3.18 + Mesa 10.5-devel for this tech demo.

With the not very demanding open-source Urban Terror game, the Catalyst performance was unchanged while it was almost 40% faster than the latest open-source Radeon driver code.

The frame times were much better with Catalyst.

The performance between Catalyst and the Radeon Gallium3D drivers were very close.