AMDGPU/RadeonSI Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.1-dev vs. NVIDIA 378.09 Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 27 January 2017 at 08:39 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 68 Comments.
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With Dota 2 the AMD Git stack is working, but at 1080p was coming up short of all the NVIDIA tests.

Steam Linux Testing

When moving over to the Vulkan renderer with the RADV Mesa driver, there is a larger margin that NVIDIA wins by in their tests.

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Steam Linux Testing

At least when pushing the hardware to 4K, the AMD OpenGL results are a bit more competitive and no longer lose across the board to the GTX 1050. But with the RADV Vulkan results, the R9 Fury is running at the same speed as the GTX 1050.


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