Radeon's Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Has Nearly Caught Up With Windows' Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 7 June 2017 at 10:29 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 104 Comments.
Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.12 / Mesa 17.2-dev RadeonSI

With the older Unigine Tropics tech demo, the RX 580 is seeing roughly the same performance on Linux vs. Windows while the faster R9 Fury manages to even run better on Linux than Windows for this GL test case.

Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.12 / Mesa 17.2-dev RadeonSI
Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.12 / Mesa 17.2-dev RadeonSI

With Heaven at 1080p, the performance was the same under Windows and Ubuntu Linux while at 4K, Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev was coming up a few frames short. Heaven was running in windowed mode at 1080p as when trying to run the test full-screen yielded the system losing display output with the Windows driver.


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