Radeon Graphics Yield Mixed Results With Linux 3.17 Kernel

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 23 August 2014 at 09:30 AM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 13 Comments.
AMD Radeon Linux 3.17 Benchmarks

With OpenArena at 2560 x 1600, the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card saw a 4% increase in frame-rate, the HD 7850 was just under 3% faster, the Radeon HD 6870 frame-rate dropped by about 9%, and the other graphics cards saw no change in performance.

AMD Radeon Linux 3.17 Benchmarks

Again, Mesa 10.3-devel was used throughout for the R600g and RadeonSI Gallium3D user-space.

AMD Radeon Linux 3.17 Benchmarks

With Tesseract we see the Radeon HD 6870 performance plunges while the Radeon HD 6950, HD 7850, and HD 7950 performance was up slightly with Linux 3.17 Git.


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