Ahead Of Radeon RX Vega, AMDGPU+RadeonSI Is Offering The Most Competitive Performance Yet Against NVIDIA On Linux

First up was BioShock Infinite and the results came as a big surprise... With Mesa 17.2, BioShock Infinite is much faster on RadeonSI thanks to the mesa_glthread support and this being one of the white-listed games. With the latest Mesa code, it's enough for the Radeon R9 Fury to actually run faster than the GeForce GTX 1080. The RX 480/580 were also both successfully faster than the GeForce GTX 1060. And yes, that's with correct rendering under both the NVIDIA and AMDGPU+RadeonSI driver stacks.

While moving to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux puts things back into more accurate perspective, but still very positive thanks to recent advancements to the Mesa driver stack. The R9 Fury is now faster than the GTX 980 Ti and the RX 580 faster than the GTX 1060. These remain some of the most competitive NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux OpenGL gaming results we have seen to date.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has also received attention from the open-source Mesa developers during the 17.2 cycle and that paired with all of the other work from the shader cache to threading is paying off. The R9 Fury here is now faster than the GTX 980 Ti, something we previously have not encountered in our Linux testing. It also wasn't long ago that the RX 480/580 was measurably slower than the GTX 1060.