2016 End-of-Year Open-Source Radeon Benchmarks With Linux 4.9, Mesa 13.1-dev On Many Different GPUs

Team Fortress 2 on the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver wasn't playable for about the past year due to GPU hangs. Fortunately, that Mesa bug affecting TF2 was recently fixed and thus can now be tested/played again with the open-source AMD Linux driver stack.

Talos Principle still runs rather slow on RadeonSI/R600g with OpenGL.

Well, those are the latest results I have to share for these AMD graphics cards from the Radeon HD 4890 through the Radeon RX 480 when using the newest open-source code as of this week with the brand new Linux 4.9 kernel and Mesa 13.1-dev user-space code. Stay tuned for comparison NVIDIA numbers plus other interesting year-end 2016 Linux benchmarks on Phoronix! As a final holiday reminder, please consider supporting our work by viewing this site without any ad-blockers, joining Phoronix Premium to view the site ad-free and to view multi-page articles on a single page (like this long article!), or make a holiday PayPal tip.

If you wish to compare your own Linux system's performance to the many OpenGL benchmarks within this article, you can install our Phoronix Test Suite automated benchmarking software and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1612182-TA-STEAMAMD281 to carry out the testing side-by-side in a fully-automated manner.