Four Years After Launch, AMD Kaveri Sees Huge Performance Boost On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 14 May 2018 at 10:12 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 51 Comments.
Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing

The Tesseract open-source game is 43% faster with the latest driver state compared to how it's found out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 18.04.0.

Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing

Unigine Superposition saw its frame-rate nearly double.

Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing
Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing
Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing

The Xonotic first person shooter game was playable at 1080p to start out with, but now it's significantly faster too thanks to this Mesa change and using AMDGPU DRM.

Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing

The GLmark2 synthetic OpenGL benchmark also saw its performance go up a lot too.

Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing

X-Plane 11 is also much faster.

Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing

And the GpuTest performance had nearly doubled as well.


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