Posted on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 18:23 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
With the upcoming release of Mesa 8.1, here's a look at how
the AMD Radeon "R600" Gallium3D driver performance has changed over the
past two years. This article has benchmarks of each major Mesa release
going back to Mesa 7.9 of 2010 back when the R600 classic DRI driver was
still in early development but the only viable choice for using
accelerated open-source graphics on AMD Radeon HD 2000 series graphics
cards and newer. For the most part, the open-source Radeon Linux
graphics performance has advanced greatly in terms of OpenGL performance
over the past two years, but it's not without some outstanding regressions. Read more
at Phoronix.