Polaris Open-Source Radeon Performance Has Evolved Much Over The Past Year

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 5 June 2017 at 11:00 AM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 29 Comments.
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has seen a lot of work done in Mesa/RadeonSI in the past months and as such it's now much faster than when it was the days of Mesa 13.0 last year. But RadeonSI could still see more improvements for Deus Ex: MD, at least compared to the NVIDIA Linux driver performance.

AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix

DiRT Rally is also much faster with the newest open-source AMD driver code than it was last year... Not bad seeing the open-source driver squeeze another 20% boost in less than one year

AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix

Dota 2 with OpenGL is about 23% faster at 1080p or 8% at 4K.


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