Latest Radeon Graphics Results On Ubuntu 14.10 Are A Bit Concerning

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 5 December 2014 at 09:39 AM EST. Page 2 of 5. 26 Comments.
Radeon Ubuntu 12.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 14.10

With OpenArena, the performance wasn't changed a lot until it came time to use the latest Ubuntu 14.10 + Git state where the frame-rate had receded by a lot.

Radeon Ubuntu 12.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 14.10
Radeon Ubuntu 12.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 14.10

With the newer OpenArena 0.8.8 release, the performance was in its worst state with the newest Ubuntu 14.10 + Git packages using Linux 3.18 / Mesa 10.5-devel.

Radeon Ubuntu 12.04 vs. 14.04 vs. 14.10

World of Padman, while another ioquake3 engine game, also showed a significant slowdown when using the very latest graphics driver code.


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