Linux 5.16 Has A Nice Performance Gift For AMD Ryzen Laptops With Radeon Graphics

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 24 December 2021 at 03:32 PM EST. Page 2 of 6. 15 Comments.

For Vulkan compute workloads, the performance improved between Mesa 21.0 and going to Mesa 21.2 from last quarter while remaining steady since and not being impacted by a newer kernel...

For heavy graphics workloads that are rather bottlenecked with the Vega APU graphics, there wasn't much of a difference to note throughout all the driver combinations tested.

But with less demanding graphical games and applications, a nice bump out of Linux 5.16 was soon noticed...


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