Posted on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 13:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
There's been a number of recent open-source driver
improvements that have come about for modern ATI/AMD Radeon graphics
cards under Linux, but not all of these features have yet to be merged
or enabled by default (e.g. 2D color tiling, PCI Express 2.0, and
HyperZ). With some basic tweaks, can the open-source Radeon Gallium3D
driver now compete with AMD's proprietary Catalyst Linux driver when it
comes to OpenGL performance? Let's see.
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