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 3 of 3. 29 Comments.
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix

Even ET: Legacy is much faster: a 35% boost at 4K.

AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix

Metro Last Light Redux that's been on Linux for a while now saw only a modest increase in performance over the past year.

AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix

OpenArena is also noticeably faster with the current driver stack half-way through 2017.

AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix
AMD Polaris One Year Phoronix

Lastly are some Serious Sam Fusion 2017 benchmarks showing more gains in the AMD Polaris open-source driver performance. Similar tests on more hardware forthcoming.

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