AMD Catalyst vs. Radeon Gallium3D On Linux 3.1

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 13 October 2011 at 08:38 AM EDT. Page 1 of 3. 20 Comments.

If you are not taken by today's release of Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot", here are some new Radeon graphics benchmarks comparing the Catalyst driver on Ubuntu 11.10 to the latest R600g driver from Mesa 7.12-devel on the soon-to-be-released Linux 3.1 kernel.

This round of Linux graphics benchmarks is quite straightforward. An ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB graphics card was tested with Catalyst 11.8 (fglrx 8.88.7 / OpenGL 3.3.11005; the proprietary ATI/AMD driver found in the Ubuntu 11.10 repository) and compared to the latest Linux 3.1 kernel and Mesa 7.12-devel git-6bf8c7c code. The latest xf86-video-ati DDX driver Git was also used from earlier this week. For reference, the Linux 2.6.39 and Linux 3.0 kernels were also tested to see whether the Linux 3.1 Radeon DRM has any performance impact on this RV770 GPU. This testing was done from an AMD Opteron system running the 64-bit Ubuntu 11.10 near-final ISO.

RV770 Radeon DRM Tests

With the open-source driver, swap buffers wait was disabled and color tiling was enabled for the Radeon HD 4870.


Related Articles
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source
Trying Out & Benchmarking The New Experimental Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver
Intel's Open-Source Compute Runtime Performing Increasingly Well Against NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver
Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10
Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver