Posted on Friday, January 14 2011 @ 3:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Now that the kernel mode-setting page-flipping for the ATI
Radeon DRM kernel module has been merged into the Linux 2.6.38 kernel
and the respective bits have been set in the xf86-video-ati DDX, we're
in the process of running new open-source ATI graphics benchmarks under
Linux. Our initial results (included in this article) show these latest
improvements to cause some major performance boosts for the open-source
ATI driver as it nears the level of performance of the proprietary
Catalyst driver.
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