AMDGPU vs. Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 Performance On Linux 4.9 DRM-Next

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 4 October 2016 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 59 Comments.
AMDGPU Radeon GCN 1.0 1.1 Linux 4.9

For those playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the performance for the HD 7950 and R7 260X were similar between AMDGPU and Radeon. For the Pitcairn-based R9 270X and R7 270, their performance had dropped noticeably with the AMDGPU kernel driver in experimental form.

AMDGPU Radeon GCN 1.0 1.1 Linux 4.9

Dota 2 was in a similar case with the HD 7950 / R7 260X performing close to the same between the Direct Rendering Manager drivers while the R9 270X and R7 370 had seen a performance regression.

AMDGPU Radeon GCN 1.0 1.1 Linux 4.9

Besides the Pitcairn GPUs regressing on AMDGPU, when running Metro Last Light Redux the AMDGPU performance was also slower for the Radeon R7 260X graphics card.


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