Radeon Windows 10 vs. Linux RadeonSI/RADV Gaming Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 15 February 2017 at 12:00 PM EST. Page 12 of 12. 62 Comments.

With the synthetic tests via GpuTest were a few cases where the RadeonSI performance on Ubuntu Linux was superior to Windows 10, but did lose with Pixmark Piano, and the other results were close.

After the Windows 10 vs. Linux NVIDIA tests from Monday, going into this I thought the RadeonSI Linux performance would have been even worse, but I was pleasantly surprised seeing these completed tests of the Radeon graphics performance between Windows 10 and Linux. There still are many cases where the Radeon Linux gaming performance comes up well short of Windows 10, in part due to the quality of the Linux ports, but overall it wasn't bad when considering it was off Mesa's RadeonSI driver with AMDGPU-PRO not even being supported yet on Ubuntu 16.10. The Vulkan results show that there still is more to do with RADV's driver, but hopefully AMD will finally open-source their Vulkan driver code that they've been talking about doing for the past year. On a driver basis, I think these are the best Windows vs. Linux results for Radeon graphics that I've seen in the past 13 years of Linux benchmarking.

In a follow-up article I'll be putting these results side-by-side with NVIDIA and looking at them on a relative percentage basis for some additional perspective on the Linux gaming performance. I also have some Windows vs. Linux Intel OpenGL numbers coming up too. Once agian, if you enjoy all our Linux benchmarks, consider a Phoronix Premium subscription or PayPal tip. Thanks for your support!

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