AMD Catalyst 15.7 Linux Benchmarks: R9 290 Hawaii & R9 285 Tonga

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 15.7 Linux Benchmarks: R9 290 Hawaii & R9 285 Tonga

I'm in the midst of a new large open-source and (separately) closed-source NVIDIA/AMD Linux graphics card comparison on the latest drivers as part of an upcoming Radeon R7 370 Linux review and to be followed by R9 Fury Linux benchmarks. However, for those interested in the Catalyst 15.7 benchmarks on Linux, I ran some quick tests with a Radeon R9 285 and R9 290...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-15.7-Linux-Driver-Bench

[bridgman]

OK, so Catalyst is faster than the open source stack again. Competition is good

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeon_12nov&num=4

(scroll down to TF2 2560x1600)

[liam]

OK, so Catalyst is faster than the open source stack again. Competition is good

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeon_12nov&num=4

(scroll down to TF2 2560x1600)

**re-reads article**
**still confused**

What article were you reading?

[andrei_me]

Bridgman's link is about radeonSI tests, look at the introduction page

[dungeon]

**re-reads article**
**still confused**

What article were you reading?

Article mostly point out that new fglrx (150 fps) is faster then older fglrx in TF2 (100 fps)... and bridgman compare that with opensource driver (130 fps).

IMO bigger resolutions used aren't usefull to compare like that, because fglrx will be also slower there but anyway

[stiiixy]

As an Arch user I still do prefer slightly slower open source drivers + pain free kernel upgrades

Yeah, I'm the same with my Radeon 7670+i7 combo on Arch. I really shouldn't be though if I want to game on this thing properly.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

As an Arch user I still do prefer slightly slower open source drivers + pain free kernel upgrades

I prefer the best driver, OpenCL 2.0 support building Blender.

[Kemosabe]

As an Arch user I still do prefer slightly slower open source drivers + pain free kernel upgrades

pain-free kernel upgrades??
This comment is about the same level as a windows troll saying you need to program C to use linux.

Just install catalyst-hook from the catalyst repo and there is no pain but joy. always and forever.

[dungeon]

What is the age of Arch linux developers on average today? Few years back that was bellow 18 years AFAIR

[liam]

dungeon and @andrei_me

I know he linked to a test from November but there been a mesa release since then and the rezs were different, I believe