How AMDGPU With PowerPlay Compares To Other Radeon GPUs

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 17 November 2015 at 01:40 PM EST. Page 3 of 3. 23 Comments.
PowerPlay AMD Linux GCN GPUs
PowerPlay AMD Linux GCN GPUs

Aside from the Radeon R9 Fury being sluggish, at least now the Radeon R9 285 is performing well on the open-source AMDGPU driver -- one year after the hardware launched.

PowerPlay AMD Linux GCN GPUs
PowerPlay AMD Linux GCN GPUs
PowerPlay AMD Linux GCN GPUs
PowerPlay AMD Linux GCN GPUs

The Radeon R9 285 is now doing good on the AMDGPU kernel driver but even with the PowerPlay support, the R9 Fury performance is still disappointingly slow and wasteful with this graphics card retailing for more than $550 USD. More benchmarks will come as soon as any new patches arrive.

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