Radeon HyperZ In Open-Source On Older Hardware

The Radeon X1800XL was bumped up by 20% with HyperZ while the Radeon X1800XT was up by 12%, which is still significant.

Thanks to OpenBenchmarking.org integration with the Phoronix Test Suite if looking at the aggregate sum of all seven Linux OpenGL tests and then normalizing the values, the Radeon X1800XL ends up being 19% faster on average with HyperZ enabled. The faster Radeon X1800XT meanwhile is only 10% faster, but that is still very significant when it comes to the open-source graphics drivers where every frame matters.

It will be interesting to see how well the HyperZ technology works on the newer classes of Radeon graphics processors as soon as the open-source stabilities. The binary Catalyst Linux driver has used this technology by default from the start. For those wanting to max their open-source driver's performance, there are also other tweaks like enabling PCI Express 2.0 support.

Stay tuned for more benchmarks on Phoronix.