Open-Source Radeon Takes On AMD Catalyst In 2D Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 17 June 2014 at 07:35 AM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 54 Comments.
AMD Radeon 2D GPU Benchmarks

With the QGears2 text test using the Qt4 X RENDER back-end, the open-source driver performance was generally ahead of the Catalyst 14.6 beta driver. The only graphics card where Catalyst yielded faster frame-rates than the open-source EXA/GLAMOR acceleration was the low-end Radeon HD 6450.

AMD Radeon 2D GPU Benchmarks

The open-source AMD Linux stack led in all of the QGears2 Gears tests.

AMD Radeon 2D GPU Benchmarks

A win for the Catalyst driver was found with the image scaling test.


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