NVIDIA vs. AMD 2D Linux Drivers: Catalyst Is Getting Quite Good At 2D

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 6 October 2014 at 04:00 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 14 Comments.

Render-Bench didn't yield much variation across the many modern GPUs benchmarked.

With the overall time for the GtkPerf GTK widget benchmark, the Radeon graphics cards lost out to the NVIDIA graphics cards with the company's highly-praised proprietary driver.

When looking at the GtkPerf results for some of the individual widgets, the Radeon GPUs were jumping ahead of their NVIDIA counterparts.


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