Benchmarking The New RadeonSI/Gallium3D Threaded Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 11 May 2017 at 12:08 PM EDT. Page 1 of 4. 51 Comments.

Last night well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olsak released a new patch series threading Gallium3D's pipe_context and initially is suitable for the RadeonSI driver. Given the performance gains he mentioned in the patch series, I was anxious to try out this new Gallium3D threading capability.

For your viewing pleasure today are some benchmarks I did of Mesa 12.1-dev Git as of this morning built against LLVM 4.0 SVN and then the tests carried out again after applying these 13 patches for Gallium threading. The kernel in-use was the Linux 4.12 Git kernel as of yesterday.

Threaded RadeonSI Gallium

For this initial Gallium threading comparison the tests were done on a Radeon RX 580 and R9 Fury. All of these OpenGL tests were done in a fully-automated and reproducible manner using the Phoronix Test Suite.


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