AMD Radeon Gallium3D Is Catching Up & Sometimes Beating Catalyst On Linux

This is a look at the CPU usage for the tested Valve Linux games that show overall the CPU usage was higher with Catalyst than the R600/RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers.

When the Catalyst driver was loaded, the tested GPUs tended to be a bit more power efficient than under the open-source driver code.

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