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    Phoronix: Linux 3.17 Doesn't Do Much For AMD Kaveri's Graphics Performance

    Following yesterday's RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst comparison using the new AMD A10-7800 Kaveri APU with Radeon R7 Graphics, I then upgraded to the latest Git code for the Linux 3.17 kernel to look for performance changes...

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    Try a discrete card

    I know there was a change with the way memory is allocated on the gpu that should provide speedups, but i guess APU's aren't affected since they all just use system memory for everything.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by smitty3268 View Post
      I know there was a change with the way memory is allocated on the gpu that should provide speedups, but i guess APU's aren't affected since they all just use system memory for everything.
      Discrete card testing will come later.
      Michael Larabel
      https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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      • #4
        Micheal, did you try playing with vm_block_size parameter? I see +2-3% on Kabini set on 12, but someone says he sees +7% with 12...so maybe some configurations like this even more .

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