Radeon GLAMOR vs. Radeon EXA vs. Catalyst On X.Org Server 1.17

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 18 March 2015 at 04:00 PM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 15 Comments.
2D Testing Ubuntu 15.04
2D Testing Ubuntu 15.04
2D Testing Ubuntu 15.04
2D Testing Ubuntu 15.04
2D Testing Ubuntu 15.04
2D Testing Ubuntu 15.04
2D Testing Ubuntu 15.04

The GtkPerf results were more of a toss-up, but generally the Catalyst driver was delivering faster 2D results than the open-source Radeon driver. Between Radeon EXA and GLAMOR for this HD 6000 series graphics cards, the results were mixed but overall GLAMOR was running quite competitively.

You can dig through these 2D Radeon Ubuntu benchmarks in more detail via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.

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